Gardiners

• Ch25 Christmas visit: "made her a slight answer and in compassion to her nieces turned the conversation."
• if he had the fortune he ought to have, I should think you could not do better
• • "Poor Jane! I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately. It had better have happened to you Lizzy; you would have laughed yourself out of it sooner"
• • "Mr Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister, as well by nature as education"
• "The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well bred and agreeable"
• • "Seriously, I would have you be on your guard. Do not involve yourself, or endeavour to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent."
• "He wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that ... his wife may teach him"