I'm reading Pride & Prejudice with difficulty. Some sentences are confusing me. Can somebody explain in plain English what these sentences mean?
- Chapter 2: Mrs. Long and her nieces must stand their chance; and therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.
- Chapter 4: They were in fact very fine ladies; not deficient in good humour when they are pleased, nor in the power or being agreeable where they chose it;
- Chapter 4: They were of a respectable family in the north of England, a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother's fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.
- Chapter 4: Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House.
Thank you so much.