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1,005	105_chapters_19-21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Even as Admiral Croft and Anne discuss the possibility of Captain Wentworth coming to Bath, the captain is already on his way. One day, Anne happens to be on Milsom Street with Mr. Elliot, Elizabeth, and Mrs. Clay when it begins to rain. Mr. Elliot spots Lady Dalrymple's carriage on the street and requests that she tak...	[ "While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne, and expressing his\nwish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath, Captain Wentworth was\nalready on his way thither. Before Mrs Croft had written, he was\narrived, and the very next time Anne walked out, she saw him.", "Mr Elliot was attending his two cousins and...
1,006	105_chapters_22-24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne returns home relieved to know the truth about Mr. Elliot. Her friendship with Mrs. Smith has, in a sense, paid off . Now she must consult Lady Russell about the matter as soon as possible. Upon reaching Camden Place, she is glad to find that Mr. Elliot has already left. Alas, Elizabeth has engaged him to return on...	[ "Anne went home to think over all that she had heard. In one point, her\nfeelings were relieved by this knowledge of Mr Elliot. There was no\nlonger anything of tenderness due to him. He stood as opposed to\nCaptain Wentworth, in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness; and the evil\nof his attentions last night, the i...
1,007	105_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The novel opens with Sir Walter Elliot indulging his snobbishness by once again taking up the Baronetage, an encyclopedia of the English nobility, to read his favorite entry: his own. The Baronetage's brief history of the Elliot family segues into today's episode of Backstory Playhouse: Sir Walter is a widower with thr...	[ "Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who,\nfor his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there\nhe found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed\none; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by\ncontemplating the limited remn...
1,008	105_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lady Russell and Anne come up with a new budget for the Elliot family, but Sir Walter and Elizabeth can't conceive of living the simple life . Sir Walter himself unwittingly suggests the solution: leaving Kellynch Hall for cheaper digs. Anne wants to stay in the neighborhood and hates the town of Bath, so of course Sir...	[ "Mr Shepherd, a civil, cautious lawyer, who, whatever might be his hold\nor his views on Sir Walter, would rather have the disagreeable prompted\nby anybody else, excused himself from offering the slightest hint, and\nonly begged leave to recommend an implicit reference to the excellent\njudgement of Lady Russell, ...
1,009	105_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sir Walter's lawyer, Mr. Shepherd, proposes an admiral as an ideal tenant; England's war with Napoleon's France has just ended, so there are plenty of naval officers coming ashore and looking to spend their war booty. Sir Walter thinks any mere rich admiral should consider himself very fortunate indeed to score Sir Wal...	[ "\"I must take leave to observe, Sir Walter,\" said Mr Shepherd one\nmorning at Kellynch Hall, as he laid down the newspaper, \"that the\npresent juncture is much in our favour. This peace will be turning all\nour rich naval officers ashore. They will be all wanting a home.\nCould not be a better time, Sir Walter...
1,010	105_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator, however, doesn't leave us in suspense for long, and helpfully explains that it is not Mr. Wentworth the curate for whom Anne is blushing, but his brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth. Cue flashback: seven years previously, in 1806, the dashing young Captain Wentworth had come to town and, within a few mon...	[ "He was not Mr Wentworth, the former curate of Monkford, however\nsuspicious appearances may be, but a Captain Frederick Wentworth, his\nbrother, who being made commander in consequence of the action off St\nDomingo, and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire, in\nthe summer of 1806; and having no pa...
1,011	105_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne decides to take a walk that just happens to coincide with the Crofts arriving to take over Kellynch Hall. The rental goes off with out a hitch, with Sir Walter pleased that his tenant is not completely hideous and the Admiral assured that his landlord is not quite a complete nitwit. As the logistics of the move ge...	[ "On the morning appointed for Admiral and Mrs Croft's seeing Kellynch\nHall, Anne found it most natural to take her almost daily walk to Lady\nRussell's, and keep out of the way till all was over; when she found it\nmost natural to be sorry that she had missed the opportunity of seeing\nthem.", "This meeting of t...
1,012	105_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the land of the Musgroves, Anne suffers the pangs of a reality show contestant who returns to the real world only to find that no one was actually watching Survivor: Circle Pines. Not surprisingly, it turns out that no one cares about the Elliots quite so much as the Elliots care about themselves, and the Musgroves ...	[ "Anne had not wanted this visit to Uppercross, to learn that a removal\nfrom one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three\nmiles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and\nidea.", "She had never been staying there before, without being struck by it, or without wishing th...
1,013	105_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Captain Wentworth arrives at Kellynch Hall, and sets the family circle astir with excitement. Mary and Charles are looking forward to meeting the Captain, but their son falls and injures himself badly, so they decide to stay home with him. Except neither of them really wants to do that: Charles tries to foist nursing d...	[ "A very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at\nKellynch, and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his\npraise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by\nthe end of another week. It had been a great disappointment to Mr\nMusgrove to find that no earlier day coul...
1,014	105_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne and Captain Wentworth cross paths frequently in the small world of Uppercross. They don't talk much to each other directly, but Anne keeps her eye on Wentworth, and is quite the expert at reading between the lines of what he says and does. One evening, when they're all together, Anne listens as the Musgrove girls ...	[ "From this time Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot were repeatedly in the\nsame circle. They were soon dining in company together at Mr\nMusgrove's, for the little boy's state could no longer supply his aunt\nwith a pretence for absenting herself; and this was but the beginning\nof other dinings and other meetings....
1,015	105_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Captain Wentworth decides to stick around Kellynch, since looking for his own potential wife is more interesting than meeting his brother's new bride. He frequently visits Uppercross - not surprisingly, since the Musgroves treat him like a rock star, while the Crofts have their own couple-y things to do. Wentworth's un...	[ "Captain Wentworth was come to Kellynch as to a home, to stay as long as\nhe liked, being as thoroughly the object of the Admiral's fraternal\nkindness as of his wife's. He had intended, on first arriving, to\nproceed very soon into Shropshire, and visit the brother settled in\nthat country, but the attractions of...
1,016	105_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne has her take on the situation, but wants to stay out of Musgrove drama, so she keeps her opinions to herself. Still, she thinks Louisa is ahead, but in her heart of hearts doesn't believe Captain Wentworth really loves either of the Musgrove girls. She also notices that Charles H. has withdrawn from the field, and...	[ "Other opportunities of making her observations could not fail to occur. Anne had soon been in company with all the four together often enough to have an opinion, though too wise to acknowledge as much at home, where she knew it would have satisfied neither husband nor wife; for while she considered Louisa to be ra...
1,017	105_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lady Russell is due to return, and Anne wonders if she will see more or less of Wentworth once she leaves Uppercross for Kellynch Lodge. Captain Wentworth disappears for a few days; when he comes back, he explains that he was visiting his friend Captain Harville, who is currently nursing an old wound at the nearby seas...	[ "The time now approached for Lady Russell's return: the day was even\nfixed; and Anne, being engaged to join her as soon as she was\nresettled, was looking forward to an early removal to Kellynch, and\nbeginning to think how her own comfort was likely to be affected by it.", "It would place her in the same villa...
1,018	105_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne and Henrietta wake up early and go for a walk on the beach; Henrietta is in that relationship stage where she can't talk about anything but her boyfriend. Louisa and Captain Wentworth join them, and then they head to town to do some shopping. On their way they run into a strange man who totally checks Anne out; hi...	[ "Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the\nnext morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast. They\nwent to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine\nsouth-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the grandeur which so\nflat a shore admitted. They praised...
1,019	105_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne stays for two days at Uppercross, making herself useful to the worry-addled Musgrove parents. Charles M. visits Uppercross, and assures his parents that Louisa is no worse and that Mrs. Harville is taking excellent care of her. There is talk that the family nanny should go with Charles back to Lyme, but no action;...	[ "The remainder of Anne's time at Uppercross, comprehending only two\ndays, was spent entirely at the Mansion House; and she had the\nsatisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both as an\nimmediate companion, and as assisting in all those arrangements for the\nfuture, which, in Mr and Mrs Musgrove's di...
1,020	105_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Charles and Mary return to Uppercross as Christmas approaches, leaving Louisa improved in health but still not completely recovered. In Lyme, the elder Musgroves and the Harvilles have been holding an informal competition as to who can be kinder and more generous, and even Mary has been enjoying herself. Anne asks Char...	[ "Though Charles and Mary had remained at Lyme much longer after Mr and\nMrs Musgrove's going than Anne conceived they could have been at all\nwanted, they were yet the first of the family to be at home again; and\nas soon as possible after their return to Uppercross they drove over to\nthe Lodge. They had left Lou...
1,021	105_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne enters Camden Place feeling like she's going to prison, but her family are highly pleased with themselves and their situation in Bath, which makes them more pleasant to her than usual. Mrs. Clay also puts out the welcome mat, but Anne knows that the woman couldn't care less about her. Sir Walter and Elizabeth hold...	[ "Sir Walter had taken a very good house in Camden Place, a lofty\ndignified situation, such as becomes a man of consequence; and both he\nand Elizabeth were settled there, much to their satisfaction.", "Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of\nmany months, and anxiously saying to her...
1,022	105_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne's still concerned that she's going to get Mrs. Clay as a wicked stepmother. Mrs. Clay offers to leave, but both the elder Elliots insist that she stay. It doesn't help Anne's worries that, when her father is trying to give her beauty advice, he holds up Mrs. Clay as an example of what his favorite face cream can d...	[ "There was one point which Anne, on returning to her family, would have\nbeen more thankful to ascertain even than Mr Elliot's being in love\nwith Elizabeth, which was, her father's not being in love with Mrs\nClay; and she was very far from easy about it, when she had been at\nhome a few hours. On going down to br...
1,023	105_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne finds out that Mrs. Smith, who had taken Anne under her wing at school when she was lonely and homesick, is staying in Bath. Mrs. Smith has had some bad luck - her husband had been foolish with money before he died, leaving her poor, and an illness has made her disabled. Anne, not telling her snobbish family but w...	[ "While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were assiduously pushing their good\nfortune in Laura Place, Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very\ndifferent description.", "She had called on her former governess, and had heard from her of there\nbeing an old school-fellow in Bath, who had the two strong claims on\nher att...
1,024	105_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Remember that other storyline, the one with the Musgroves? Anne does too, and wonders what's going on with that. Fortunately she gets a thick letter from Mary, and, even better, the letter was brought to Bath by the Crofts, whom Anne looks forward to seeing again. Sir Walter makes inane background noise making sure tha...	[ "It was the beginning of February; and Anne, having been a month in\nBath, was growing very eager for news from Uppercross and Lyme. She\nwanted to hear much more than Mary had communicated. It was three\nweeks since she had heard at all. She only knew that Henrietta was at\nhome again; and that Louisa, though c...
1,025	105_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Even as Anne and the Admiral speak of inviting him, however, Captain Wentworth is already on his way to Bath. One day Anne is out with Mr. Elliot, Elizabeth, and Mrs. Clay, and they go into a shop to get out of the rain. Elizabeth manages to bum a ride from Lady Dalrymple in her carriage, but there is only room for two...	[ "While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne, and expressing his\nwish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath, Captain Wentworth was\nalready on his way thither. Before Mrs Croft had written, he was\narrived, and the very next time Anne walked out, she saw him.", "Mr Elliot was attending his two cousins and...
1,026	105_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sir Walter, Elizabeth, Mrs. Clay, and Anne are at the concert, sitting around waiting for the fashionably-late Dalrymples when Captain Wentworth walks in. Anne starts talking to him, despite feeling the eyes of her father and sister sending daggers at her back. Eventually they relent slightly, however, just enough to g...	[ "Sir Walter, his two daughters, and Mrs Clay, were the earliest of all\ntheir party at the rooms in the evening; and as Lady Dalrymple must be\nwaited for, they took their station by one of the fires in the Octagon\nRoom. But hardly were they so settled, when the door opened again, and\nCaptain Wentworth walked in...
1,027	105_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne is glad that she's going to see Mrs. Smith, as it means she won't be seeing Mr. Elliot. Not that she hates him - it's just she has realized that Captain Wentworth is the only one for her, and so Mr. Elliot is rather a waste of time. Anne tells Mrs. Smith about the concert, but Mrs. Smith is more interested in the ...	[ "Anne recollected with pleasure the next morning her promise of going to\nMrs Smith, meaning that it should engage her from home at the time when\nMr Elliot would be most likely to call; for to avoid Mr Elliot was\nalmost a first object.", "She felt a great deal of good-will towards him. In spite of the\nmischie...
1,028	105_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne goes home, thinking over Mrs. Smith's revelations. She is glad she now knows Mr. Elliot's secrets, but is worried about how what she has to tell will affect her family and friends. She comes home to find that she has succeeded in avoiding Mr. Elliot's morning visit, but that he finagled an invitation to return tha...	[ "Anne went home to think over all that she had heard. In one point, her\nfeelings were relieved by this knowledge of Mr Elliot. There was no\nlonger anything of tenderness due to him. He stood as opposed to\nCaptain Wentworth, in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness; and the evil\nof his attentions last night, the i...
1,029	105_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne decides to put off bashing Mr. Elliot to Lady Russell for another day, since she's more concerned with setting things right with Captain Wentworth. She plans to spend the day with the Musgroves; when she arrives, Mrs. Croft, Captain Harville, and Captain Wentworth are all there already. Rather than the calm day sh...	[ "One day only had passed since Anne's conversation with Mrs Smith; but a\nkeener interest had succeeded, and she was now so little touched by Mr\nElliot's conduct, except by its effects in one quarter, that it became\na matter of course the next morning, still to defer her explanatory\nvisit in Rivers Street. She ...
1,030	105_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator gives us a rather tongue-in-cheek moral: when young people want to get married, they're going to manage to do it no matter what. And as it turns out, neither Sir Walter nor Elizabeth object much, since Wentworth's risen in the world even as the Elliots have dropped. Also, Wentworth's handsomeness counts as...	[ "Who can be in doubt of what followed? When any two young people take\nit into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to\ncarry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever\nso little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. This may be bad morality to conclud...
1,007	105_volume_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Austen opens her novel by introducing Sir Walter Elliot, the owner of Kellynch Hall, and a man for whom "vanity was the beginning and end of character. His favorite book, the reader is told, is the Baronetage, a book which holds record of the most important families in England, and which, most importantly records Sir W...	[ "Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who,\nfor his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there\nhe found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed\none; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by\ncontemplating the limited remn...
1,008	105_volume_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Shepard and Lady Russell draw up a plan for ways that Sir Elliot can save money. They decide that he must "retrench" by seriously cutting back on his expenditures if he is to get out of the large debt he has accrued. Lady Russell, argues that such cuts will in no way lessen Sir Walter's standing in the eyes of sens...	[ "Mr Shepherd, a civil, cautious lawyer, who, whatever might be his hold\nor his views on Sir Walter, would rather have the disagreeable prompted\nby anybody else, excused himself from offering the slightest hint, and\nonly begged leave to recommend an implicit reference to the excellent\njudgement of Lady Russell, ...
1,009	105_volume_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Observing that England is now at peace, Mr. Shepard remarks that many men of the English Navy will soon be home on land. He suggests that a sailor would be a very desirable tenant to rent Kellynch Hall because they are so meticulous and careful with their possessions. The family enters into a conversation on the merits...	[ "\"I must take leave to observe, Sir Walter,\" said Mr Shepherd one\nmorning at Kellynch Hall, as he laid down the newspaper, \"that the\npresent juncture is much in our favour. This peace will be turning all\nour rich naval officers ashore. They will be all wanting a home.\nCould not be a better time, Sir Walter...
1,010	105_volume_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne's love interest is Captain Frederick Wentworth, the brother of the former curate of Monkford and of Mrs. Croft. The narrator recounts the events of the summer of 1806 in which Captain Wentworth was visiting his brother in the area and became aquainted with Anne. They fell in love and had hoped to marry but Anne's ...	[ "He was not Mr Wentworth, the former curate of Monkford, however\nsuspicious appearances may be, but a Captain Frederick Wentworth, his\nbrother, who being made commander in consequence of the action off St\nDomingo, and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire, in\nthe summer of 1806; and having no pa...
1,011	105_volume_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Admiral and Mrs. Croft come to see Kellynch. They approve of the house, grounds, and furniture, and hit it off very well with Sir Walter and Elizabeth. Sir Walter is flattered and gratified by their polished behavior and good manners. He thinks the Admiral one of the "best-looking sailors he has ever met. It is formall...	[ "On the morning appointed for Admiral and Mrs Croft's seeing Kellynch\nHall, Anne found it most natural to take her almost daily walk to Lady\nRussell's, and keep out of the way till all was over; when she found it\nmost natural to be sorry that she had missed the opportunity of seeing\nthem.", "This meeting of t...
1,012	105_volume_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At Uppercross, Anne notices the very different topics that occupy the Musgroves' attention. Little concerned with discussing appearances and social standing, the Musgrove family occupies itself with hunting, newspapers, house-keeping, dress, dancing, and music. She finds their presence a welcome change from the company...	[ "Anne had not wanted this visit to Uppercross, to learn that a removal\nfrom one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three\nmiles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and\nidea.", "She had never been staying there before, without being struck by it, or without wishing th...
1,013	105_volume_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Captain Wentworth arrives at Kellynch to visit his sister, Mrs. Croft. Mr. Musgrove goes to call on him and decides he likes the Captain very much. He invites Captain Wentworth to the Great House at Uppercross, and Mary and Anne are invited to join them in the visit. Anne is quite nervous at the prospect of seeing Capt...	[ "A very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at\nKellynch, and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his\npraise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by\nthe end of another week. It had been a great disappointment to Mr\nMusgrove to find that no earlier day coul...
1,014	105_volume_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot are now in the same social circle and must repeatedly dine together. They refrain from having any conversation, however, except what politeness necessitates. Anne thinks about how their temperaments are perfectly suited to each other. She thinks that Admiral and Mrs. Croft are the only...	[ "From this time Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot were repeatedly in the\nsame circle. They were soon dining in company together at Mr\nMusgrove's, for the little boy's state could no longer supply his aunt\nwith a pretence for absenting herself; and this was but the beginning\nof other dinings and other meetings....
1,015	105_volume_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Captain Wentworth has come to stay at Kellynch for an extended length of time. He makes frequent trips to Uppercross to visit the Musgroves. Charles Hayter, who is a cousin of the Musgroves and a suitor of Henrietta's, is disturbed to come back from his short trip to find Captain Wentworth so much a favorite of his cou...	[ "Captain Wentworth was come to Kellynch as to a home, to stay as long as\nhe liked, being as thoroughly the object of the Admiral's fraternal\nkindness as of his wife's. He had intended, on first arriving, to\nproceed very soon into Shropshire, and visit the brother settled in\nthat country, but the attractions of...
1,016	105_volume_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne's observations make her believe that Captain Wentworth is not in love with either of the Musgrove sisters, but is just accepting and enjoying their attentions. Charles Hayter, feeling slighted by Henrietta, ceases to come to Uppercross after a few days. In the morning, the Miss Musgroves stop by the cottage to ann...	[ "Other opportunities of making her observations could not fail to occur. Anne had soon been in company with all the four together often enough to have an opinion, though too wise to acknowledge as much at home, where she knew it would have satisfied neither husband nor wife; for while she considered Louisa to be ra...
1,017	105_volume_1,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne plans to leave her sister Mary at Uppercross and go stay with Lady Russell for a while. She reasons this move may put her more in contact with Captain Wentworth, because Lady Russell's house is decidedly closer to Kellynch. Captain Wentworth returns to visit Uppercross after not being seen for two days. He had gon...	[ "The time now approached for Lady Russell's return: the day was even\nfixed; and Anne, being engaged to join her as soon as she was\nresettled, was looking forward to an early removal to Kellynch, and\nbeginning to think how her own comfort was likely to be affected by it.", "It would place her in the same villa...
1,018	105_volume_1,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, the party goes for an early morning stroll by the seashore before breakfast. While they are walking up the steps, a gentleman stops to let them pass and cannot help but look at Anne. It is clear that he finds her very attractive. Captain Wentworth notices the man admiring Anne, and turns to admire her...	[ "Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the\nnext morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast. They\nwent to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine\nsouth-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the grandeur which so\nflat a shore admitted. They praised...
1,019	105_volume_2,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Louisa's health continues to slowly improve at Lyme, and family friends bring constant updates of her condition to the Musgroves at Uppercross. Anne decides to leave Uppercross to stay with Lady Russell. The Musgroves go to Lyme to visit Louisa and to help Mrs. Harville with her own children while she is caring for the...	[ "The remainder of Anne's time at Uppercross, comprehending only two\ndays, was spent entirely at the Mansion House; and she had the\nsatisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both as an\nimmediate companion, and as assisting in all those arrangements for the\nfuture, which, in Mr and Mrs Musgrove's di...
1,020	105_volume_2,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Charles and Mary finally return from Lyme. They pay a visit to Anne and Lady Russell to report that Louisa is now able to sit up, although her head is still very weak. Mary says she really enjoyed her two-week stay in Lyme; she had gone to church, bathed, dined nightly, and taken numerous books from the library. Her ti...	[ "Though Charles and Mary had remained at Lyme much longer after Mr and\nMrs Musgrove's going than Anne conceived they could have been at all\nwanted, they were yet the first of the family to be at home again; and\nas soon as possible after their return to Uppercross they drove over to\nthe Lodge. They had left Lou...
1,021	105_volume_2,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now in Bath, Anne finds her father and sister happily situated at a house in Camden Place. Although she is very depressed to be there, she finds the welcome from her family unusually warm. They are excited to show her all the new furniture and rooms of the house, but they have no inclination to listen to Anne's stories...	[ "Sir Walter had taken a very good house in Camden Place, a lofty\ndignified situation, such as becomes a man of consequence; and both he\nand Elizabeth were settled there, much to their satisfaction.", "Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of\nmany months, and anxiously saying to her...
1,022	105_volume_2,_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, Mrs. Clay offers to leave Bath, now that Anne has come, but Sir Walter and Elizabeth will not hear of it. This reignites worries in Anne that her father may become romantically attached to Mrs. Clay. She notices that her sister, Elizabeth, does not worry at all about this possibility. Lady Russell, wi...	[ "There was one point which Anne, on returning to her family, would have\nbeen more thankful to ascertain even than Mr Elliot's being in love\nwith Elizabeth, which was, her father's not being in love with Mrs\nClay; and she was very far from easy about it, when she had been at\nhome a few hours. On going down to br...
1,023	105_volume_2,_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Anne hears that an old school friend of hers, Miss Hamilton now Mrs. Smith, is in Bath. After school, Mrs. Smith had married a rich man, but he was extravagant. Two years ago, he had died, leaving her a widow and deeply in debt. Soon afterwards, s he contracted rheumatic fever and was crippled by her illness. Anne deci...	[ "While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were assiduously pushing their good\nfortune in Laura Place, Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very\ndifferent description.", "She had called on her former governess, and had heard from her of there\nbeing an old school-fellow in Bath, who had the two strong claims on\nher att...
1,024	105_volume_2,_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A letter arrives for Anne from Mary, and Anne is pleased to learn that the Crofts have come to Bath. Mary's letter also brings Anne the news that Louisa Musgrove has become engaged to Captain Benwick. To everyone's surprise, they have fall en in love while Louisa was recovering at the Harvilles' home. Mary says that Be...	[ "It was the beginning of February; and Anne, having been a month in\nBath, was growing very eager for news from Uppercross and Lyme. She\nwanted to hear much more than Mary had communicated. It was three\nweeks since she had heard at all. She only knew that Henrietta was at\nhome again; and that Louisa, though c...
1,025	105_volume_2,_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Captain Wentworth arrives in Bath and Anne sees him the very next day when she is out walking. She is with Elizabeth, Mrs. Clay, and Mr. Elliot in town when it starts to rain. Mr. Elliot asks Lady Dalrymple if she will escort the ladies home in her carriage. Lady Dalrymple agrees but since she only has room for two of ...	[ "While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne, and expressing his\nwish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath, Captain Wentworth was\nalready on his way thither. Before Mrs Croft had written, he was\narrived, and the very next time Anne walked out, she saw him.", "Mr Elliot was attending his two cousins and...
1,026	105_volume_2,_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Elliot family goes to the concert, which all the important people in Bath will attend. Captain Wentworth enters, and Anne is pleased that her father and Elizabeth choose to acknowledge him. Wentworth stops to talk with Anne, compliments her on her level-headedness in Lyme, and expresses his good wishes for Louisa a...	[ "Sir Walter, his two daughters, and Mrs Clay, were the earliest of all\ntheir party at the rooms in the evening; and as Lady Dalrymple must be\nwaited for, they took their station by one of the fires in the Octagon\nRoom. But hardly were they so settled, when the door opened again, and\nCaptain Wentworth walked in...
1,027	105_volume_2,_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, Anne goes to visit Mrs. Smith and tell her all about the concert. Mrs. Smith, having already heard a version of last night's events from one of the maids, is anxious to hear Anne's description as well. Mrs. Smith believes Anne to be in love with Mr. Elliot and she asks Anne if he has ever mentioned he...	[ "Anne recollected with pleasure the next morning her promise of going to\nMrs Smith, meaning that it should engage her from home at the time when\nMr Elliot would be most likely to call; for to avoid Mr Elliot was\nalmost a first object.", "She felt a great deal of good-will towards him. In spite of the\nmischie...
1,028	105_volume_2,_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	That evening Mr. Elliot tries to flatter and entertain Anne, but to no avail. He finds she is not at all interested in him tonight. He announces that he is leaving Bath for a few days and will return on Saturday. The next morning, Anne intends to go visit Lady Russell, but she is met by Charles and Mary Musgrove, surpr...	[ "Anne went home to think over all that she had heard. In one point, her\nfeelings were relieved by this knowledge of Mr Elliot. There was no\nlonger anything of tenderness due to him. He stood as opposed to\nCaptain Wentworth, in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness; and the evil\nof his attentions last night, the i...
1,029	105_volume_2,_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, Anne leaves to join the Musgroves, Captain Harville, Captain Wentworth, and Mrs. Croft for the day. They are in a parlor room, and Anne talks to Captain Harville by the window. Captain Wentworth is not far off, and is writing a letter. Anne and Captain Harville discuss the constancy of love. Anne argu...	[ "One day only had passed since Anne's conversation with Mrs Smith; but a\nkeener interest had succeeded, and she was now so little touched by Mr\nElliot's conduct, except by its effects in one quarter, that it became\na matter of course the next morning, still to defer her explanatory\nvisit in Rivers Street. She ...
1,030	105_volume_2,_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	by the narrator. Anne and Captain Wentworth announce their engagement. Neither Elizabeth nor Sir Walter openly object. With a very large fortune, Captain Wentworth is now worthy to propose to the daughter of an indebted baronet. Lady Russell is initially upset, but her first desire is to see Anne happy, so she eventual...	[ "Who can be in doubt of what followed? When any two young people take\nit into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to\ncarry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever\nso little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. This may be bad morality to conclud...
1,007	105_volume_1_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	, Persuasion, by Jane Austen Volume I , Chapter 1, pages 9-16 Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch-hall, an estate in Somersetshire, England, loves nothing more than to look up his name and his family history in the Baronetage, a book that lists the details regarding titled families in England. The listing for Sir Walter incl...	[ "Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who,\nfor his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there\nhe found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed\none; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by\ncontemplating the limited remn...
1,008	105_volume_1_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Chapter II, pages 16-22 Mr. Shepherd and Lady Russell ponder how to get the Kellynch estate out of debt without diminishing the honor of Sir Walter and his family. Lady Russell consults Anne, who has no puffed up sense of pride that prevents her from suggesting stringent measures. Anne's plan would see the estate debt-...	[ "Mr Shepherd, a civil, cautious lawyer, who, whatever might be his hold\nor his views on Sir Walter, would rather have the disagreeable prompted\nby anybody else, excused himself from offering the slightest hint, and\nonly begged leave to recommend an implicit reference to the excellent\njudgement of Lady Russell, ...
1,009	105_volume_1_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Chapter III, pages 22-29 Sir Walter is being very picky about whom he should let rent Kellynch-hall. Mr. Shepherd persuades him to consider renting to someone from the navy. A war has just ended, and there are many rich naval officers returning to England and seeking a home befitting their new wealth. Sir Walter, howev...	[ "\"I must take leave to observe, Sir Walter,\" said Mr Shepherd one\nmorning at Kellynch Hall, as he laid down the newspaper, \"that the\npresent juncture is much in our favour. This peace will be turning all\nour rich naval officers ashore. They will be all wanting a home.\nCould not be a better time, Sir Walter...
1,012	105_volume_1_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Chapter VI, pages 43-53 Anne and Mary are joined by Charles' sisters, Louisa and Henrietta, on a walk. Anne, whose heart is full of missing Kellynch, finds that Mary and the Musgroves are only interested in the fact that the Elliots are residing in Bath, which they find quite glamorous. They speak of going there themse...	[ "Anne had not wanted this visit to Uppercross, to learn that a removal\nfrom one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three\nmiles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and\nidea.", "She had never been staying there before, without being struck by it, or without wishing th...
1,013	105_volume_1_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Chapter VII, pages 54-62 Upon hearing that Captain Wentworth has come to Kellynch, Mr. Musgrove visits him and the Crofts. Captain Wentworth returns the visit, and Anne barely escapes seeing him. Just as she and Mary were walking to the main house, Mary's eldest son is brought to her, his collar bone injured in a fall....	[ "A very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at\nKellynch, and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his\npraise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by\nthe end of another week. It had been a great disappointment to Mr\nMusgrove to find that no earlier day coul...
1,014	105_volume_1_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Chapter VIII, pages 63-72 Wentworth and the Crofts visit Uppercross frequently, and Anne learns to steel herself in his company. She conceals her horror when he describes for everyone his escapades in the navy. When Mrs. Musgrove reminds him that her own son, Richard, was under his command, Wentworth sits down beside h...	[ "From this time Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot were repeatedly in the\nsame circle. They were soon dining in company together at Mr\nMusgrove's, for the little boy's state could no longer supply his aunt\nwith a pretence for absenting herself; and this was but the beginning\nof other dinings and other meetings....
1,015	105_volume_1_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Chapter IX, pages 72-80 Wentworth visits Uppercross almost every day. His presence bothers Charles Hayter, a Musgrove cousin, who has Henrietta in his sights as a wife. Henrietta seemed agreeable to that arrangement, until Captain Wentworth showed up to compete for her attention. Anne cannot determine which sister, Hen...	[ "Captain Wentworth was come to Kellynch as to a home, to stay as long as\nhe liked, being as thoroughly the object of the Admiral's fraternal\nkindness as of his wife's. He had intended, on first arriving, to\nproceed very soon into Shropshire, and visit the brother settled in\nthat country, but the attractions of...
1,031	42671_volume_1,_chapters_1-6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The novel begins at Longbourn, at the Bennet family estate. The Bennets are immersed in an in-depth conversation about Mr. Bingley, "a single man of large fortune" who is soon to inhabit the nearby estate of Netherfield Park. Mrs. Bennet hopes that Mr. Bingley will be a potential suitor for one of her daughters. She de...	[ "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession\nof a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.", "However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his\nfirst entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds\nof the surrounding families, that he is consi...
1,032	42671_volume_1,_chapters_7-14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter, Austen introduces the entail, an old British custom designed to keep a family estate within the bloodline. In this case, Longbourn can only pass on to a male heir. Because the Bennets have only daughters, they are likely to lose the estate to a distant relation upon Mr. Bennet's death. Lydia and Kitty ...	[ "Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two\nthousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed in\ndefault of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's\nfortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply\nthe deficiency of his. Her father h...
1,033	42671_volume_1,_chapters_15-23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator offers some insight into Mr. Collins's past. Owing to the combination of an "illiterate and miserly father" and the unexpected good fortune of finding Lady Catherine as a patroness, Collins is both overly humble and yet completely full of himself. His intention in coming to Longbourn is to "make amends" fo...	[ "Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had\nbeen but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of\nhis life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and\nmiserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he\nhad merely kept the necessary term...
1,034	42671_volume_1,_chapters_1-5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The residents of Hertfordshire county are excited by the news that a wealthy single gentleman named Mr. Bingley has rented Netherfield Park, a large house with extensive grounds. Mrs. Bennet urges her husband to go meet Mr. Bingley when he arrives in the neighborhood so that their five daughters may then have the oppor...	[ "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession\nof a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.", "However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his\nfirst entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds\nof the surrounding families, that he is consi...
1,035	42671_volume_1,_chapters_6-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jane and Elizabeth begin spending more time with the residents of Netherfield. Caroline Bingley and Mrs. Hurst seem fond of Jane, and the attraction between Mr. Bingley and Jane continues to grow. Meanwhile, Elizabeth finds Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst to be self-important but approves of their brother and the relations...	[ "The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit\nwas returned in due form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the\ngood will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was\nfound to be intolerable and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a\nwish of being better acquainte...
1,036	42671_volume_1,_chapters_10-14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Jane continues to recuperate at Netherfield, Elizabeth again spends the evening in the drawing room with the Bingleys, Hursts, and Mr. Darcy. She observes Miss Bingley's obvious attempts to flirt with Darcy, but Darcy seems unmoved by her efforts. Elizabeth is energized by the group's discussion of character, especi...	[ "The day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss\nBingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who\ncontinued, though slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined\ntheir party in the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear.\nMr. Darcy was writing, and Miss B...
1,037	42671_volume_1,_chapters_15-18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Feeling a sense of obligation to the Bennet family because of the entail, Mr. Collins plans to ask one of the Bennet daughters to marry him. After Mrs. Bennet tells him that they expect Jane to be engaged soon, he decides to propose to Elizabeth. That resolved, Mr. Collins joins Elizabeth and her sisters as they walk t...	[ "Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had\nbeen but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of\nhis life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and\nmiserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he\nhad merely kept the necessary term...
1,038	42671_volume_1,_chapters_19-23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The morning after the Netherfield ball, Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth. He outlines his motivation for proposing and promises never to bring up the fact that she brings so little money to the marriage. Torn between discomfort and the desire to laugh at his officious manner, Elizabeth politely refuses him. Mr. Collin...	[ "The next day opened a new scene at Longbourn. Mr. Collins made his\ndeclaration in form. Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as\nhis leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having\nno feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the\nmoment, he set about it in a...
1,039	42671_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Rumors abound in Hertfordshire County that a Mr. Bingley, a wealthy young bachelor, has rented Netherfield Park, a large estate, and is in need of a wife. There is particular excitement in the Bennett household in Longbourn, where there are five eligible daughters, and Mrs. Bennett's prime occupation is to see her daug...	[ "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession\nof a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.", "However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his\nfirst entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds\nof the surrounding families, that he is consi...
1,040	42671_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Bingley returns Mrs. Bennett's visit, but the girls are absent, and they will not get the chance to meet him until the next Ball is held in the neighborhood. There is much gossip in the neighborhood as to the extent and content of Bingley's party at the forthcoming Ball. At the end, he brings himself, his two siste...	[ "Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five\ndaughters, could ask on the subject was sufficient to draw from her\nhusband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked him\nin various ways; with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and\ndistant surmises; but he eluded th...
1,041	42671_chapters_4-5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The residents of Longbourn and Netherfield discuss the happenings at the Ball. Jane and Elizabeth mull over Bingley's clear intentions towards Jane, who admits that she found him attractive and charming. She is flattered at his admiration for her. Jane says, "He is just what a young man ought to be, sensible, good humo...	[ "When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in\nher praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much\nshe admired him.", "\"He is just what a young man ought to be,\" said she, \"sensible, good\nhumoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!--so much ease,\nwit...
1,042	42671_chapter_6_-7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Netherfield Hall receives more and more visits from Jane and Elizabeth. Caroline Bingley and Mrs. Hurst become fond of Jane, and the relationship between Jane and Bingley continues to blossom. Although Elizabeth thinks that Bingley will be a very good match for her sister, she still regards Bingley's two sisters as sel...	[ "The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit\nwas returned in due form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the\ngood will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was\nfound to be intolerable and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a\nwish of being better acquainte...
1,043	42671_chapters_8-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The jealous Caroline Bingley sees a real opportunity in bringing down Elizabeth in front of Darcy. She thinks that Elizabeth's unladylike behavior in tramping across three miles of countryside and arriving at Netherfield in a disheveled state will enable her to poke fun at Elizabeth. The women observe the mud on Elizab...	[ "At five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half past six\nElizabeth was summoned to dinner. To the civil enquiries which then\npoured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the\nmuch superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley's, she could not make a very\nfavourable answer. Jane was by n...
1,044	42671_chapters_10-11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jane nears full health at Netherfield, and Elizabeth is looking forward to returning home. She has to undergo the daily drawing room meetings with the household, but she is not intimidated by this, and views her dialogue with Darcy as a challenge. As Jane now joins them in the drawing room, Bingley and Jane spend most ...	[ "The day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss\nBingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who\ncontinued, though slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined\ntheir party in the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear.\nMr. Darcy was writing, and Miss B...
1,045	42671_chapters_12-14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Bennett's cousin, William Collins, arrives. He will inherit Longbourn on the death of Mr. Bennett because the estate must pass to a male heir, in other words the estate is entailed. As Collins has this power over the Bennett family, they are obliged to overlook his pompousness and ridiculous behavior, and ingratiat...	[ "In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the\nnext morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for\nthem in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on\nher daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which\nwould exactly finish Jane...
1,046	42671_chapters_15-16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Collins is now convinced to ask one of the Bennett girls to marry him. Mrs. Bennett explains that Jane is as good as spoken for, so he diverts his attention to Elizabeth. Collins joins Elizabeth, Lydia and Kitty on a walk to Meryton, where the younger sisters are excited as they hope to meet some of the Officers statio...	[ "Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had\nbeen but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of\nhis life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and\nmiserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he\nhad merely kept the necessary term...
1,047	42671_chapters_17-18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Again the whole family are excited at the prospect of the Netherfield Ball, and this includes Collins, much to the others surprise, but he sees this as a means of securing his ties with Elizabeth, and she finds herself maneuvered into agreeing to dance with Collins for the first two dances. Elizabeth had hoped that she...	[ "Elizabeth related to Jane the next day, what had passed between Mr.\nWickham and herself. Jane listened with astonishment and concern;--she\nknew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr.\nBingley's regard; and yet, it was not in her nature to question the\nveracity of a young man of such amiab...
1,038	42671_chapters_19-23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day following the Netherfield Ball, Mr. Collins decides to make his play for Elizabeth. He is totally confident that he will be successful, for who could refuse such a suitor who has so much to offer. He asks permission from Mrs. Bennett to speak to Elizabeth alone. She already suspects what is going to happen...	[ "The next day opened a new scene at Longbourn. Mr. Collins made his\ndeclaration in form. Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as\nhis leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having\nno feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the\nmoment, he set about it in a...
1,048	42671_chapters_24-25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A further letter is received from Caroline Bingley saying that they now have no plans for returning to Netherfield. This further adds to Jane's depression and fuels Elizabeth's anger. Elizabeth is frustrated, but she has not means to release her pent up feelings, and she hates the way her sister has been manipulated. S...	[ "Miss Bingley's letter arrived, and put an end to doubt. The very first\nsentence conveyed the assurance of their being all settled in London for\nthe winter, and concluded with her brother's regret at not having had\ntime to pay his respects to his friends in Hertfordshire before he left\nthe country.", "Hope wa...
1,049	42671_chapters_26-27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins marry and leave for his parish in Kent. Elizabeth reluctantly agrees to visit them soon. In the spring, Elizabeth, Charlotte's father Sir William, and her sister Maria, make the trip to Kent, stopping of at London, with the Gardiners. Elizabeth learns that Wickham has been seeing a rich ...	[ "Mrs. Gardiner's caution to Elizabeth was punctually and kindly given on\nthe first favourable opportunity of speaking to her alone; after\nhonestly telling her what she thought, she thus went on:", "\"You are too sensible a girl, Lizzy, to fall in love merely because you\nare warned against it; and, therefore, I...
1,050	42671_chapters_28-30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Collins and Collins, give a warm welcome to Elizabeth, Sir William and Maria. They are keen to give them a conducted tour of the house and gardens. Lady Catherine De Bourgh invites them to dine at her residence, Rosings. All the party is in awe of Lady Catherine and her surroundings except Elizabeth, who is merely...	[ "Every object in the next day's journey was new and interesting to\nElizabeth; and her spirits were in a state for enjoyment; for she had\nseen her sister looking so well as to banish all fear for her health,\nand the prospect of her northern tour was a constant source of delight.", "When they left the high road ...
1,051	42671_chapters_31-36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One day, Darcy visits the Parsonage to find Elizabeth alone, and she takes the opportunity to enquire whether Bingley will return to Netherfield. It doesn't seem hopeful. Darcy makes a point of seeking out Elizabeth whilst on her walks, and she becomes agitated by this. However, one day she meets Colonel Fitzwilliam, a...	[ "Colonel Fitzwilliam's manners were very much admired at the parsonage,\nand the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasure of\ntheir engagements at Rosings. It was some days, however, before they\nreceived any invitation thither, for while there were visitors in the\nhouse, they could not be nec...
1,052	42671_chapters_37-43	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam leave, closely followed by Elizabeth and Maria. The ladies stop off at the Gardiners' home in London, and joined by Jane, all three return to Longbourn. Kitty and Lydia are distraught that the militia is leaving for Brighton in two weeks. Elizabeth is pleased at this news for it will mean ...	[ "The two gentlemen left Rosings the next morning; and Mr. Collins having\nbeen in waiting near the lodges, to make them his parting obeisance, was\nable to bring home the pleasing intelligence, of their appearing in very\ngood health, and in as tolerable spirits as could be expected, after the\nmelancholy scene so ...
1,053	42671_chapters_44-46	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Darcy is exceedingly polite, and clearly in his own territory he is full of confidence, and is the perfect host. Of course the Gardiners represent the respectable and sane branch of the Bennett family. They meet with Darcy's younger sister and she is totally different from Wickham's description of her. Bingley and his ...	[ "Elizabeth had settled it that Mr. Darcy would bring his sister to visit\nher, the very day after her reaching Pemberley; and was consequently\nresolved not to be out of sight of the inn the whole of that morning. But her conclusion was false; for on the very morning after their own\narrival at Lambton, these visit...
1,054	42671_chapters_47-50	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When the Gardiners and Elizabeth arrive at Longbourn they are brought up-to-date regarding Lydia's situation. Mr. Gardiner leaves to join Mr. Bennett in London, the latter retuning soon after, leaving Gardiner to manage the situation. Jane is running the household because Mrs. Bennett is indisposed in her room with hys...	[ "\"I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth,\" said her uncle, as they\ndrove from the town; \"and really, upon serious consideration, I am much\nmore inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does of the\nmatter. It appears to me so very unlikely, that any young man should\nform such a design against...
1,055	42671_chapters_51-60	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The "happy couple" arrives at Longbourn acting as if nothing out of the ordinary has happened. In fact, Lydia is quite smug in having secured a husband in front of all her older sisters. . Wickham seemed less enthusiastic and Elizabeth makes it plain to him that she is aware of his past, but will accept him into the fa...	[ "Their sister's wedding day arrived; and Jane and Elizabeth felt for her\nprobably more than she felt for herself. The carriage was sent to meet\nthem at ----, and they were to return in it, by dinner-time. Their\narrival was dreaded by the elder Miss Bennets; and Jane more especially,\nwho gave Lydia the feelings ...
1,056	42671_volume_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Chapter one introduces Mr. and Mrs. Bennet of the Longbourn estate. Mrs. Bennet has been told that a "young man of large fortune from the north of England" is moving to Netherfield, an estate near theirs, and she has designs on marrying him to one of her daughters. Mrs. Bennet says that Mr. Bennet must go and see Bingl...	[ "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession\nof a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.", "However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his\nfirst entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds\nof the surrounding families, that he is consi...
1,057	42671_volume_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Elizabeth, as well as three of her four sisters, Kitty, Mary, and Lydia are briefly introduced in chapter two. While in Chapter one Mr. Bennet teases his wife saying he will not visit Bingley as soon as he arrives, in Chapter two we learn that indeed "Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley...	[ "Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He\nhad always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his\nwife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was\npaid, she had no knowledge of it. It was then disclosed in the following\nmanner. Observing his s...
1,040	42671_volume_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Bingley is invited to dinner when he returns Mr. Bennet's visit, but declines the offer, as he must go to town on business. He returns in time for a ball at Sir William and Lady Lucas' , and brings his sisters and his friend, Mr. Darcy. While all agree at first that Mr. Darcy is a good looking, rich man, soon he is tho...	[ "Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five\ndaughters, could ask on the subject was sufficient to draw from her\nhusband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked him\nin various ways; with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and\ndistant surmises; but he eluded th...
1,058	42671_volume_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Jane and Elizabeth are alone, Jane admits how much she admires Bingley, and that she finds his sisters, Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst, charming. Elizabeth however, wonders at how her sister never finds fault with anybody, and how she can be "so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others. Elizabeth does not...	[ "When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in\nher praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much\nshe admired him.", "\"He is just what a young man ought to be,\" said she, \"sensible, good\nhumoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!--so much ease,\nwit...
1,059	42671_volume_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sir William and Lady Lucas are further introduced. They have many children, and their oldest daughter Charlotte, is a good friend of Elizabeth's. The Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets discuss the ball, dwelling much on the pride of Mr. Darcy. It is said that he sat next to a woman without talking to her for half an hou...	[ "Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets\nwere particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade\nin Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the\nhonour of knighthood by an address to the King, during his mayoralty.\nThe distinction had perhaps bee...
1,060	42671_volume_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Bennet sisters get to know Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst more, and while Bingley's sisters would like to know Jane and Elizabeth better, they have no use for their mother or their two younger sisters. Elizabeth tells Charlotte that she thinks it is good that Jane does not flaunt her good feelings for Bingley, and Cha...	[ "The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit\nwas returned in due form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the\ngood will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was\nfound to be intolerable and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a\nwish of being better acquainte...
1,061	42671_volume_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Catherine and Lydia, the two youngest Bennet sisters often visit Mrs. Phillips in Meryton, as it is only one mile away. From her they learn that a militia regiment is stationed in Meryton. Every day they learn more about the officers, and they soon become acquainted with some of them. Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst invite...	[ "Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two\nthousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed in\ndefault of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's\nfortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply\nthe deficiency of his. Her father h...
1,062	42671_volume_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Bingley sisters abuse Elizabeth when she is not around for what they see as pride and a lack of manners. They feel sorry for Jane because of her family and its lack of connections to make her a good match. Later in the evening at a card game between the Hursts, the Bingleys and Darcy, details about Darcy's estate, ...	[ "At five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half past six\nElizabeth was summoned to dinner. To the civil enquiries which then\npoured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the\nmuch superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley's, she could not make a very\nfavourable answer. Jane was by n...
1,063	42671_volume_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Bingley and her two youngest daughters come to Netherfield to visit Jane. Although she is now much better, it is decided that she should not be moved yet. Lydia reminds Bingley that he said he would have a ball, and he agrees to have one when Jane is well. Mrs. Bennet and the others discuss town vs. country living...	[ "Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister's room, and in the\nmorning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the\nenquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid,\nand some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his\nsisters. In spite of ...
1,064	42671_volume_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jane continues to get better. Much of the day is spent in the drawing-room with reading, letter-writing and music. While Miss Bingley is playing the piano, Darcy asks Elizabeth to dance, and she says no, thinking that he only wants to dance with her so he can "have the pleasure of despising taste. This makes Miss Bingl...	[ "The day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss\nBingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who\ncontinued, though slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined\ntheir party in the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear.\nMr. Darcy was writing, and Miss B...
1,065	42671_volume_1,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jane is feeling better, and after dinner she comes into the drawing-room for a few hours where she and Bingley spend much time talking over by the fire. Miss Bingley asks Bingley if he is serious about having a ball at Netherfield, and he says that he is. Miss Bingley notices that Darcy does not watch her walk about th...	[ "When the ladies removed after dinner, Elizabeth ran up to her sister,\nand seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the\ndrawing-room; where she was welcomed by her two friends with many\nprofessions of pleasure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable\nas they were during the hour which passed ...
1,066	42671_volume_1,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Elizabeth and Jane decide to return home, but when they send a note home asking for the carriage, their mother creates reasons why they cannot have it yet. Elizabeth talks Jane into borrowing Bingley's carriage, but it is decided that they will not leave Netherfield until the next day. Darcy realizes that he has paid t...	[ "In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the\nnext morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for\nthem in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on\nher daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which\nwould exactly finish Jane...
1,067	42671_volume_1,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Bennet reveals that he has received a letter from a stranger who will be arriving to stay with them a few days. After amusing himself for a while with their curiosity, he tells them that it is Mr. Collins, his cousin. The Bennet's estate will go to Mr. Collins on Mr. Bennet's death, as the Bennets have no sons. Mr....	[ "\"I hope, my dear,\" said Mr. Bennet to his wife, as they were at\nbreakfast the next morning, \"that you have ordered a good dinner to-day,\nbecause I have reason to expect an addition to our family party.\"", "\"Who do you mean, my dear? I know of nobody that is coming I am sure,\nunless Charlotte Lucas should...
1,068	42671_volume_1,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At dinner Mr. Collins expounds on the virtues of Lady Catherine de Bourgh extensively, as well as her residence, Rosings Park. He also speaks of Miss De Bourgh, Lady Catherine's daughter, and how good he is at flattering both of the women. Mr. Bennet concludes that Mr. Collins is as absurd as he had expected him to be	[ "During dinner, Mr. Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants\nwere withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his\nguest, and therefore started a subject in which he expected him to\nshine, by observing that he seemed very fortunate in his patroness. Lady\nCatherine de Bourgh's attentio...
1,069	42671_volume_1,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Collins has decided to ask Jane to marry him, but when he tells Mrs. Bennet of his desire, she tells him that she expects Jane to be soon engaged to another , and Collins soon changes to Elizabeth. Lydia, Kitty, Jane, Elizabeth and Collins walk to Meryton and come across Mr. Denny, an officer acquainted with Lydia....	[ "Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had\nbeen but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of\nhis life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and\nmiserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he\nhad merely kept the necessary term...
1,070	42671_volume_1,_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Bennet's carriage takes the five sisters and Mr. Collins to dinner at the Philips' the next day, where Mr. Wickham will also be dining. Wickham and Elizabeth spend quite some time talking, and she tells him that everyone is disgusted with Darcy's pride. Wickham tells Elizabeth that Darcy's father was "one of the be...	[ "As no objection was made to the young people's engagement with their\naunt, and all Mr. Collins's scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for\na single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach\nconveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the\ngirls had the pleasure o...
1,071	42671_volume_1,_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day Elizabeth tells Jane all that Wickham has told her. Jane feels that there must be some misunderstanding on some side, as it is impossible that any man of common humanity could treat his father's favorite in such a way. Elizabeth still believes Wickham, and will wait until Darcy tells her different. Mr. Bin...	[ "Elizabeth related to Jane the next day, what had passed between Mr.\nWickham and herself. Jane listened with astonishment and concern;--she\nknew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr.\nBingley's regard; and yet, it was not in her nature to question the\nveracity of a young man of such amiab...

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