1. Comemoração, em selos, dos 200 anos
do livro Orgulho e
Preconceito, da autora inglesa
Jane Austen

2. O Royal Mail, os CTT do Reino Unido,
lançaram uma série de 6 selos alusivos a 6
novelas de Jane Austen para comemorar os
.
Orgulho
200 anos da edição do livro
e Preconceito

3. "There certainly
are not so many
men of large
fortune in the
world as there are
pretty women to
deserve them."

4. “She took her candle and looked
closely at the cabinet ... The key was
in the door, and she had a strange
fancy to look into it; not, however,
with the smallest expectation of
finding anything, but it was so very
odd, after what Henry had said. In
short, she could not sleep till she had
examined it. So, placing the candle
with great caution on a chair, she
seized the key with a very tremulous
hand and tried to turn it; but it
resisted her utmost strength.
Alarmed, but not discouraged, she
tried it another way; a bolt flew, and
she believed herself successful; but
how strangely mysterious! The door
was still immovable. She paused a
moment in breathless wonder. The
wind roared down the chimney, the
rain beat in torrents against the
windows, and everything seemed to
speak the awfulness of her situation."

5. " "When they came to the steps, leading upwards
from the beach, a gentleman, at the same
moment preparing to come down, politely drew
back, and stopped to give them way. They
ascended and passed him; and as they passed,
Anne's face caught his eye, and he looked at her
with a degree of earnest admiration, which she
could not be insensible of. She was looking
remarkably well; her very regular, very pretty
features, having the bloom and freshness of
youth restored by the fine wind which had been
blowing on her complexion, and by the
animation of eye which it had also produced. It
was evident that the gentleman, (completely a
gentleman in manner) admired her exceedingly.
Captain Wentworth looked round at her
instantly in a way which shewed his noticing of
it. He gave her a momentary glance, a glance of
brightness, which seemed to say, 'That man is
struck with you, and even I, at this moment, see
something like Anne Elliot again.'"
"

6. "As she stood before the
canvas on which he was
represented, and fixed his
eyes upon herself, she
thought of his regard with
a deeper sentiment of
gratitude than it had ever
raised before; she
remembered its warmth,
and softened its
impropriety of
expression."

7. "On opening the door, she saw
Marianne stretched on the bed,
almost choked by grief, one letter in
her hand, and two or three others
laying by her. Elinor drew near, but
without saying a word; and seating
herself on the bed, took her hand,
kissed her affectionately several
times, and then gave way to a burst of
tears, which at first was scarcely less
violent than Marianne's. The latter,
though unable to speak, seemed to
feel all the tenderness of this
behaviour, and after some time thus
spent in joint affliction, she put all the
letters into Elinor's hands; and then
covering her face with her
handkerchief, almost screamed with
agony."

8. 'To be sure,' cried
Emma, 'it is always
incomprehensible to
a man that a woman
should ever refuse an
offer of marriage. A
man always imagines
a woman to be ready
for any body who
asks her.'