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Which two parts in these excerpts from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice illustrate the theme of pride?
1. Oh my dear Mr. Bennet," as she entered the room, "we have had a most delightful evening, a most excellent ball. I wish you had been
there. Jane was so admired, nothing could be like it. Everybody said how well she looked and Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful and
danced with her twice! Only think of that my dear, he actually danced with her twicel and she was the only creature in the room that he
asked a second time. First of all, he asked Miss Lucas. I was so vexed to see him stand up with her
2. "His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that
so very fine a young man with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. It may so express it he has
a right to be proud."
"That is very true,"replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine"
3. "Well," said Charlotte, "I wish jane success with all my heart and if she were married to him tomorrow. I should think she had as good a
chance of happiness as if she were to be studying his character for a twelvemonth. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance
the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the
least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation and it is better to know as little as
possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
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