Sublime

Caroline Bingley ficou profundamente desolada com o casamento de Darcy; mas como lhe pareceu conveniente conservar o direito de frequentar Pemberley, acabou por esquecer todo o ressentimento; a sua simpatia por Georgiana era maior do que nunca, mostrava-se quase tão atenciosa para Darcy como outrora, e pagou com juros a Elizabeth todas as dívidas d

She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment. He was made of excellent human dough, and had the rare merit of knowing that his talents, even if let loose, would not set the smallest stream in the country on fire: hence he liked the prospect of a wife to whom he could say, ‘What shall we do?’ about thi

She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker,5 if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said ‘Exactly’ to

Mas Georgiana não se lhe juntou nessas críticas. A recomendação do irmão era suficiente para garantir a sua boa vontade; o juízo dele era infalível,

‘Let Mrs Casaubon choose for herself, Elinor.’ ‘That is the nonsense you wise men talk! How can she choose if she has no variety to choose from? A woman’s choice usually means taking the only man she can get.

ouvira dizer que Georgiana Darcy era extremamente orgulhosa; mas uns minutos de observação convenceram-na de que era apenas excessivamente tímida.

Georgiana tinha a melhor opinião possível de Elizabeth; embora a princípio tivesse visto quase com alarme o tom veemente e jocoso com que ela falava com o seu irmão. Estranhava vê-lo alvo de gracejos, a ele, que sempre lhe inspirara quase tanto respeito como afecto. Deste modo, graças a Elizabeth, Georgiana pôde aprender algo que de outro modo lhe

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. But Rosamond Vincy seemed to have the true melodic charm; and when a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather t

e a congeminar expulsá-la de lá, juntamente com as filhas, mal o senhor Bennet morresse. Queixou-se amargamente de tudo isto ao marido. «Sinceramente, senhor Bennet», disse ela, «é muito duro pensar que a Charlotte Lucas herdará esta casa, que eu terei de ceder-lhe o meu lugar e vê-la viver aqui!» «Minha cara, não se deixe tomar por ideias tão mela