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Love Classics
Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5
Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly.
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Love Classics
Pride and Prejudice Chapter 4
When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister just how very much she admired him.
“He is just what a young man ought to be,” said she, “sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!”
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Short Stories
The Awakening
While on holiday in Tenerife without her husband, Jean acquires much more than a suntan. She meets José, an artist who lives on the island and suddenly a whole new life is opened up to her. Then he asks her to stay, and she realises that it’s the most important decision of her life.
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Love Classics
Pride and Prejudice Chapter 3
Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked him in various ways with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.
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Book Excerpts
Lord Fenmore’s Wager Chapter 1
Miss Diana Hamilton glanced up from her embroidery, her brows raised in surprise. “You did what?” she exclaimed.
The young man standing before her shifted his feet, and said defensively, “I could not help it, Diana, indeed I could not.”
“You could not help wagering our home?”
The young man cleared his throat. “‘Twas not merely our home, I’m afraid.”
“What do you mean - not merely our home?” Diana said, laying her embroidery to one side, and fixing her brother with a stern look.
“You were part of the wager, Di,” he said, flushing. “I am sorry, but Fenmore insisted upon it, and I...”
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Book Excerpts
The Dashing Debutante Chapter 1
The door of the carriage jerked open and a cloaked figure on horseback leaned forward into the coach and pointed a pistol at the man lounging inside. “Stand and deliver!” he called in a low voice.
The inmate of the carriage, a dark, elegantly attired gentleman, raised his quizzing glass and, in an unhurried fashion, proceeded to inspect the highwayman through it. Eventually, he lowered the glass and said softly, “I think not.”
“Stand and deliver!” the highwayman said again, his blue eyes narrowing behind the slits of his mask. “Your money or your life!”
Leaning back into his seat, the dark gentleman closed his eyes. After a while he said in a bored voice, “My guarded entourage follows me - about a mile behind. They will come upon us at any moment. I suggest you depart forthwith and play your childish games on someone else.”
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Love Classics
Pride and Prejudice Chapter 2
Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it. It was then disclosed in the following manner. 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 way to know what Mr. Bingley likes,” said her mother resentfully, “since we are not to visit.”
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Short Stories
A Dip in the Gene Pool
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they wander why exactly they continue in the great dispiriting round – meet someone, date for a while, break up. What use are men after all? Perhaps, when the great biological foot stands ready to stomp, there is one use you can still put them to . . .
Latest Columns
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As I wake up next to Rashad. Or is it Raveen?
To meet or not to meet, that is the question. Or at least that’s the question I ask my fellow internet daters. The advice given on a lot of sites suggests you don’t give out your phone number immediately. They encourage you to get to know someone and to meet in a neutral place on the first date.
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Pretending is plain hard work
Dear Gabriel,
I don’t seem to get anywhere with girls. My mates tell me I go about it all wrong. My one mate has girls all the time.
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The parents’ sex quiz
Only take this quiz if you are a parent.
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Coffee girl
I sell frappacinos to restaurants. It pays better than journalism and I’m in London for a good time, not politics.
The girl who serves the coffee at one of my new clients in Chancery Lane takes my breath away (literally. As in, I forget to breathe). She’s definitely gay. I’m never wrong. Except that one time when I was wrong about my first “girlfriend”. ("Just because I let you fuck me doesn’t make me gay,” I think is how she put it.)
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Should I phone him?
Dear Gabriel,
I met this guy at a party the other night. We hooked up and I really thought we had a connection. We ended up kissing (and a little more) in the car afterwards. He promised to phone and put my number in his cell phone. But since then I haven’t heard.
Allaboutlove News
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Pride and Prejudice in serial form
Allaboutlove has launched, in serial form, one of the most enduring of love stories – Pride and Prejudice. We will be running a new chapter of the novel every week for the next year. If you haven’t yet read Pride and Prejudice, here’s your chance.
