"Pride and Prejudice"
by Jane Austen

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     "Neglect! I am sure you neglect nothing that can add to the beauties of that noble place. Charles, when you build your house, I wish it may be half as delightful as Pemberley."

     "I wish it may."

     "But I would really advise you to make your purchase in that neighbourhood, and take Pemberley for a kind of model. There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire."

     "With all my heart; I will buy Pemberley itself if Darcy will sell it."

     "I am talking of possibilities, Charles."

 

     "Upon my word, Caroline, I should think it more possible to get Pemberley by purchase than by imitation."

     Elizabeth was so much caught with what passed, as to leave her very little attention for her book; and soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near the card-table, and stationed herself between Mr. Bingley and his eldest sister, to observe the game.

     "Is Miss Darcy much grown since the spring?" said Miss Bingley; "will she be as tall as I am?"

     "I think she will. She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet's height, or rather taller."

 
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