05 April 2013

textbook love

"The process of recording had the effect, as [Pepys] soon found out, of heightening and extending his enjoyment [of life]." Richard Ollard's Pepys: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. Print. 19.


Elizabeth running into Mr. Darcy at Pemberly:
"...They stood together on the lawn. At such a time, much might have been said, and silence was very awkward. She wanted to talk, but there seemed an embargo on every subject. At last she recollected that she had been traveling, and they talked of Matlock and Dovedale with great perseverance." Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Third edition. New York: W. W. Nortin & Company, 2001. Print. 167.


Mr. Bennet on Mr. Wickham after he has married Lydia: "He simpers and smirks and makes love to us all. I am prodigiously proud of him. I defy even Sir William Lucas himself to produce a more valauble son-in-law." Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Third edition. New York: W. W. Nortin & Company, 2001. Print. 214.

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