Цитаты из книги «Гордость и предубеждение / Pride and Prejudice. Большие надежды / Great Expectations»

Mr. Bennet was a mixture of quick mind, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. Her mind was less difficult to develop.

She was a woman of mean understanding,[251] little information, and uncertain temper.[252] When she was discontented, she treated herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married;[253] she adored visiting and news.