The concern with getting daughters married into good families pervades jane austen’s pride and prejudice and forms a large part of the social mannerisms that the novel mocks. in which this excerpt does one of the bennet parents make an ironically false claim about having gone to great lengths to achieve that goal?

Read the excerpt from "the most dangerous game." again rainsford lifted the heavy knocker, and let it fall. the door opened then, opened as suddenly as if it were on a spring, and rainsford stood blinking in the river of glaring gold light that poured out. the first thing rainsford's eyes discerned was the largest man rainsford had ever seen—a gigantic creature, solidly made and black bearded to the waist. in his hand the man held a long-barreled revolver, and he was pointing it straight at rainsford's heart. the details of this excerpt show that rainsford sees ivan as a(n) individual.