| 1 | In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library. | |
| 2 | The dealer will follow your figure with a counteroffer that then allows you to go back and forth until there is a compromise. | |
| 3 | Since the age of 15, he had been racing through more plausible alternatives: from legal clerk, to courtroom and parliamentary shorthand reporter, then on to journalism and ambitions in the theatre. | |
| 4 | Yet my mind continued turning the idea over. | |
| 5 | He lingered over washing his hands in the basin and drying them before he turned. |
