“I cannot believe, Hill, that any person, in the history of mankind, ever had more burdens to bear than I! An eldest daughter – so lovely, so gentle – still unmarried! A second daughter as cross and contrary as Lizzy is! A third with no talent to console her cousin, a sulky fourth, and a fifth who finds losing her home a source of humour!”
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
“the rich never see themselves as we do – they will compare themselves to the Bingleys and the Darcys, instead of to everyone else in England!”
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
“Most English people do not have manors, but work for a living, instead.”
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
“London always seems a place of possibilities,”
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
“Into the silence, the new butler said, ‘If I may say so, I still believe that Miss Bennet looked uncommonly well as they set off, and such as any young man might request an introduction to. ’Twould be the salvation of the family should she marry high, for then it might not signify whether the master had one son or fifty!’ I suspected that fifty sons would be a worse affliction than the five young ladies the master was already plagued with, but I did not say so.”
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
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