You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.
it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.