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Read Time < 1 mins Lydia, Kitty, and Mrs. Bennet are upset about the regiment leaving Meryton. They wish they could accompany them to Brighton, where they will be stationed for the summer. Lydia gets an invitation from Mrs. Foster, the wife of a colonel, to accompany her to Brighton. Elizabeth tries to talk her father into […]
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Read Time 2 mins Elizabeth’s impatience to acquaint Jane with what had happened could no longer be overcome; and at length, resolving to suppress every particular in which her sister was concerned, and preparing her to be surprised, she related to her the next morning the chief of the scene between Mr. Darcy and herself. Miss Bennet’s astonishment
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Read Time 2 mins Maria, Jane, and Elizabeth arrive in Hertfordshire at an inn where their father’s carriage awaits them. Kitty and Lydia greet them. They have a meal waiting for the girls, but ask for money to pay for it. They spent all their money at a dressmaker’s. Lydia bought an ugly bonnet she hopes to redo
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Read Time 4 mins Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin [1799-1837] Historians say, their opinions of course, that Pushkin with the way he used words may have emancipated the Russian language from its adolescent conventions and achieved a simplicity directness of speech and imagery that have few parallels outside the language of ancient Greece. His ear, untrained and uninterested in music proper,
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Read Time < 1 mins Mr. Collins thanks Elizabeth for coming for a visit. He knows that Hunsford offers little in the way of excitement, and their way of life is humble. However, they have done their upmost to make Elizabeth’s visit pleasant. Elizabeth replies with sincere thanks, for she has enjoyed her visit. Mr. Collins considers the one
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Read Time 8 mins Interview with Oft Beat Echo in 1983. Crooner were an independent band from Glasgow and still to this day keep their hand in for their long term fan base with live shows and releases of a quality right up their with their youthful creations. In his interview Crooner talked about ‘Isolation in Creation’
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Read Time 21 mins (Full Transcript from Vinyl) So making this record is a special privilege. And I’ll do my best in this short space of time to pass along to you a distillation of more than 20 years of research on why some people seem to do so well in life, while others do not. This
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Read Time < 1 mins Darcy and his cousin leave Rosings the next morning. Mr. Colons waits near the lodge to make obsequious farewells, after which he hastens to console Lady Catherine and her daughter. To the great satisfaction of the parsonage, he brings back a message from Lady Catherine inviting them all to dine with her. Lady Catherine
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Read Time < 1 mins In the quiet hours of the night, I sit alone, My thoughts a tangled web, a silent moan. I trace the lines of my life’s weary song, And find myself in a place where I don’t belong. For I am the architect of my own solitude, A prisoner of my mind’s relentless
Read Time 3 mins If Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did not expect it to contain a renewal of his offers, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents. But such as they were, it may well be supposed how eagerly she went through them, and what a contrariety of emotion they excited.
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