Pride and prejudice, vocabulary quiz, chapters 11-18, parts 3 and 4
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He addressed himself to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was “very glad;” but diffuseness and warmth remained for Bingley’s __________. He was full of joy and attention
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“I should like balls infinitely better, if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably _________in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of the day.”
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In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with ________and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there
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Elizabeth wrote the next morning to their mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane’s week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before. Her answer, therefore, was not ________________, at least not to Elizabeth’s wishes, for she was impatient to get home.
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She saw her in idea settled in that very house, in all the __________________ which a marriage of true affection could bestow; and she felt capable, under such circumstances, of endeavouring even to like Bingley’s two sisters.
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Steady to his purpose, he scarcely spoke ten words to her through the whole of Saturday, and though they were at one time left by themselves for half-an-hour, he _______ most conscientiously to his book, and would not even look at her.
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“It certainly is a most _____________________affair,” said Mr. Bennet, “and nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn. But if you will listen to his letter, you may perhaps be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself.”
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I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose ___________ and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish
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In describing to her all the ________________ of Lady Catherine and her mansion, with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode, and the improvements it was receiving, he was happily employed until the gentlemen joined them
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After breakfast, the girls walked to Meryton to inquire if Mr. Wickham were returned, and to _________ over his absence from the Netherfield ball.
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Sir William and Lady Lucas were speedily applied to for their consent; and it was bestowed with a most joyful alacrity. Mr. Collins’s present circumstances made it a most ____________ match for their daughter, to whom they could give little fortune; and his prospects of future wealth were exceedingly fair.
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Yes—the late Mr. Darcy ______________ me the next presentation of the best living in his gift. He was my godfather, and excessively attached to me. I cannot do justice to his kindness
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Family pride, and ____________ pride—for he is very proud of what his father was—have done this
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When the dancing recommenced, however, and Darcy approached to claim her hand, Charlotte could not help cautioning her in a whisper, not to be a ________________, and allow her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man ten times his consequence.
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the ____________ of a proverb.
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It is particularly __________________ on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first
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He answered me with the utmost civility, and even paid me the compliment of saying that he was so well convinced of Lady Catherine’s _____________________ as to be certain she could never bestow a favour unworthily.
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They repulsed every attempt of Mrs. Bennet at conversation, and by so doing threw a _____________ over the whole party, which was very little relieved by the long speeches of Mr. Collins, who was complimenting Mr. Bingley and his sisters on the elegance of their entertainment, and the hospitality and politeness which had marked their behaviour to their guests.
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That there must be a wide difference between the established forms of ceremony amongst the __________, and those which regulate the clergy
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Then turning to Mr. Bennet, he offered himself as his antagonist at _____________________________. Mr. Bennet accepted the challenge, observing that he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements.
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