![]() ![]() She is considerably better now, but it must be some time, I suppose, before she is able to do anything. Our family affairs are rather deranged at present, for Nanny has kept her bed these three or four days with a pain on her side and fever, and we are forced to have two charwomen which is not very comfortable. “Well,” said Mrs Hill, “I expect Mrs Nicholls needs all the help that she can get.” ( Longbourn, p 49) James paused in his work, then tilted his head, and got on with his polishing. ![]() “They have a black man at Netherfield, did you know? she announced triumphnty. “MrB allows me books, and his newspapers, and Miss Elizabeth always gives me whatever novel she has borrowed from the circulating library.” “But it never occurred to you that I might read more widely than, say you, for example? “So you just assumed me to be ignorant.”. ![]()
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