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Answered in sentence

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"With pleasure," answered my uncle.
"You are right, Ambrose," my uncle answered.
"But if you have got them to-day," said Elizabeth, "my mother's purpose will be answered."
Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard.
Her inquiries after her sister were not very favourably answered.
Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt, and were both protesting that they knew many women who answered this description, when Mr. Hurst called them to order, with bitter complaints of their inattention to what was going forward.
"You used us abominably ill," answered Mrs. Hurst, "running away without telling us that you were coming out."
But Elizabeth, who had not the least inclination to remain with them, laughingly answered: "No, no; stay where you are.
She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on.
After amusing himself some time with their curiosity, he thus explained:"About a month ago I received this letter; and about a fortnight ago I answered it, for I thought it a case of some delicacy, and requiring early attention.
This gallantry was not much to the taste of some of his hearers; but Mrs. Bennet, who quarreled with no compliments, answered most readily.
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered.
She answered in the affirmative, and, unable to resist the temptation, added, "When you met us there the other day, we had just been forming a new acquaintance."
"I can readily believe," answered he gravely, "that reports may vary greatly with respect to me; and I could wish, Miss Bennet, that you were not to sketch my character at the present moment, as there is reason to fear that the performance would reflect no credit on either."
He answered me with the utmost civility, and even paid me the compliment of saying that he was so well convinced of Lady Catherine's discernment as to be certain she could never bestow a favour unworthily.
Before Elizabeth had time for anything but a blush of surprise, Mrs. Bennet answered instantly, "Oh dear!--yes--certainly.
Elizabeth quietly answered "Undoubtedly;" and after an awkward pause, they returned to the rest of the family.
Elizabeth felt all the impertinence of her questions but answered them very composedly.
She answered him in the usual way, and after a moment's pause, added:"My eldest sister has been in town these three months.
She was perfectly sensible that he never had; but she wished to see whether he would betray any consciousness of what had passed between the Bingleys and Jane, and she thought he looked a little confused as he answered that he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet.
As he spoke there was a sort of smile which Elizabeth fancied she understood; he must be supposing her to be thinking of Jane and Netherfield, and she blushed as she answered:"I do not mean to say that a woman may not be settled too near her family.
He answered her in the same style, and the subject dropped.
She answered him with cold civility.
Elizabeth could not repress a smile at this, but she answered only by a slight inclination of the head.
But against this there were objections; and she finally resolved that it could be the last resource, if her private inquiries to the absence of the family were unfavourably answered.
They had now entered a beautiful walk by the side of the water, and every step was bringing forward a nobler fall of ground, or a finer reach of the woods to which they were approaching; but it was some time before Elizabeth was sensible of any of it; and, though she answered mechanically to the repeated appeals of her uncle and aunt, and seemed to direct her eyes to such objects as they pointed out, she distinguished no part of the scene.
Elizabeth answered only by a slight bow.
She answered with equal indifference and brevity, and the other said no more.
In Darcy's presence she dared not mention Wickham's name; but Elizabeth instantly comprehended that he was uppermost in her thoughts; and the various recollections connected with him gave her a moment's distress; but exerting herself vigorously to repel the ill-natured attack, she presently answered the question in a tolerably detached tone.
"And have you answered the letter?"
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