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Select the correct text in the passage.
The concern with getting daughters married into good families pervades Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and forms a large part of the social
mannerisms that the novel mocks. In which section of this excerpt does one of the Bennet parents
make an ironically false claim about having
go
to great lengths to achieve that goal?
"What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation?" cried he. "Do you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that is laid on them
as nonsense? I cannot quite agree with you there. What say you, Mary? For you are
a
young
lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great boa
and make extracts."
Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how.
"While Mary is adjusting her ideas," he continued, "let us return to Mr. Bingley."
"I am sick of Mr. Bingley," cried his wife.
1 am sorry to hear that, but why did not you tell me that before? If I had known as much this morning I certainly would not have called on him. It
very unlucky, but as I have actually paid the visit, we cannot escape the acquaintance now."
The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy wa
over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.
"How good it was in you, my dear Mr. Bennet! But I knew I should persuade you at last. I was sure you loved your girls too well to neglect such a
acquaintance. Well, how pleased I am! and it is such a good joke, too, that you should have gone this morning and never said a word about it till
now."
Mr. Bennet and as he spoke, he left the room, fatigued with the raptures of his wife.