Theme: marriage
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Marriage and Economics
Each daughter can claim an income of £ 250, in case of marriage. It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had ...
Pride and Prejudice / Public Perception
Miss Lucas is married and settled: and one of my own daughters. I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have seen it in the papers. It was in...
Frankenstein / Secrets Unveiled
I will confide this tale of misery and terror to you the day after our marriage shall take place, for, my sweet cousin, there must be perfect confiden...
Pride and Prejudice / Defiance of Duty
You are determined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.” “Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude,” ...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Aspirations
Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with,-- “I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy.” “We are not in a...
Dracula / Gender and Truth
You will tell him, because I would, if I were in your place, certainly tell Arthur. A woman ought to tell her husband everything--don’t you think so, ...
Pride and Prejudice / Wealth and Matrimony
Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Expectations
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Tensions
I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.” “_That_ will make your Ladyship’s situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no ef...
Gulliver's Travels / Social Dynamics
This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, w...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage Aspirations
His being such a charming young man, and so rich, and living but three miles from them, were the first points of self-gratulation; and then it was suc...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage and Agency
I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of...