Tempt Me (The Wolf Hotel Book 1)

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The wisest and the best of men — nay, the wisest and best of their actions — may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke. The clunky language with which the narrator summarizes Elizabeth’s acceptance serves a specific purpose, as it captures the one moment of joyful incoherence for this supremely well-spoken character. Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged. It was reasonable that he should feel he had been wrong; he had liberality, and he had the means of exercising it; and though she would not place herself as his principal inducement, she could, perhaps, believe that remaining partiality for her might assist his endeavours in a cause where her peace of mind must be materially concerned.

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He was struggling for the appearance of composure, and would not open his lips till he believed himself to have attained it.

He began writing a series of detective novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake; these were popular and lucrative. So much in love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections which had made him prevent his friend's marrying her sister, and which must appear at least with equal force in his own case—was almost incredible!

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But his pride, his abominable pride—his shameless avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane—his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned Mr. I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express theml by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so. But I cannot— I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly.

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The conduct of neither, if strictly examined, will be irreproachable; but since then, we have both, I hope, improved in civility. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Darcy, who never looks at any woman but to see a blemish, and who probably never looked at you in his life! Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done. But this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently affected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr.It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. What he told me was merely this: that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage, but without mentioning names or any other particulars, and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer. If 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. At this moment, however, Elizabeth’s eventual change of heart remains unforeseen—all she thinks of is Darcy’s arrogance, his attempts to interfere in Bingley’s courtship of Jane, and his alleged mistreatment of Wickham. Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.