"It is a fashion -- perhaps not one out of Town, I do not know, but it sweeps through young ladies and even our mothers are not immune to it!"

Lizzie Bennet -- handsome, clever, and rich -- seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence, yet she had lived twenty-one years in the world feeling a near-constant sensation of distress and vexation.

Elizabeth’s reality is far different from her sisters’.

It was a well-known fact that Mr. Dashwood, of note for having come nearer the South Pole than any other man in Boston (and then for having come to write about it most thrillingly), had some queer ways about him.