autonomy

They wouldn’t let me go to the end of the garden wall.” “_You_! I should be sorry to ask you to cross the threshold, for my convenience, on such a night,” I cried. “I want you to _tell_ me my way, not to _show_ it: or else to persuade Mr. Which would you have?...

“We accept,” I answered; “only I will ask your permission, sir, to address one question to you—one only.” “Speak, sir.” “You said that we should be free on board.” “Entirely.” “I ask you, then, what you mean by this liberty?” “Just the liberty to go, to come, ...

“Very well--and this offer of marriage you have refused?” “I have, sir.” “Very well.

There remained the guide: what course would he adopt? In default of his assistance, it was necessary to be assured of his neutrality.

They walked towards the Lucases’, because Kitty wished to call upon Maria; and as Elizabeth saw no occasion for making it a general concern, when Kitty left them she went boldly on with him alone. Now was the moment for her resolution to be executed; and while...

The least agreeable circumstance in the business was the surprise it must occasion to Elizabeth Bennet, whose friendship she valued beyond that of any other person. Elizabeth would wonder, and probably would blame her; and though her resolution was not to be s...

I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness. At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered th...