Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Nay, if you are serious about it, I shall consider the matter isabsolutely settled.
It wasnecessary to make this circumstance a matter of pleasure, because onsuch occasions it is the etiquette; but no one was less likely than Mrs.
This matter maybe considered, therefore, as finally settled.
Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with moreinterest than the matter had ever excited before, how many years longerMr. Bennet was likely to live; and Sir William gave it as his decidedopinion, that whenever Mr. Collins should be in possession of theLongbourn estate, it would be highly expedient that both he and his wifeshould make their appearance at St.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Mr. Collins's return into Hertfordshire was no longer a matter ofpleasure to Mrs.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Mr. Bennet treated the matter differently.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Lizzy, when you first read that letter, I am sure you could not treatthe matter as you do now.