The arrival of a young, well-off, eligible man named Mr. Bingley sends the Bennet household--with five girls of a marrying age--into a tizzy. But it's the introduction of Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Darcy, that sets in motion the fate of Elizabeth Bennet, resolved only after a labyrinth of social and personal complexities.
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Episode 1
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
Episode 2
"To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone. what could she mean by it?"
Episode 3
"Mr. Collins, you must marry. Choose properly, choose a gentlewoman for my sake, and for your own, let her be an active useful sort of person."
Episode 4
"I have come to offer myself to you against the dictates of my will, and reason."
Episode 5
He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, in this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance.
Episode 6
The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family connections or fortune. Is this to be endured?
