Pride and Prejudice

ed from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters. In spite of this amendment, however, she requested to have a note s

ungest girls, reached Netherfield

uld probably remove her from Netherfield. She would not listen, therefore, to her daughter's proposal of being carried home; neither did the apothecary, who arrived about the same time, think it at all advisable. After sitting a littl

too ill to be moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of mo

not be thought of. My sister, I am

with cold civility, "that Miss Bennet will receive

profuse in her

which is always the way with her, for she has, without exception, the sweetest temper I have ever met with. I often tell my other girls they are nothing to her. You have a sweet room here, Mr. Bingley,

should resolve to quit Netherfield, I should probably be off in five

should have supposed o

nd me, do you?" cried

nderstand yo

ompliment; but to be so easily se

that a deep, intricate character is more

you are, and do not run on in the wild ma

y immediately, "that you were a studier o

s are the most amusing. They

few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourh

uch, that there is something new

mentioning a country neighbourhood. "I assure you there is

a moment, turned silently away. Mrs. Bennet, who fancied she

ountry, for my part, except the shops and public places. The

it; and when I am in town it is pretty much the same. They ha

tion. But that gentleman," looking at Darcy, "s

ite mistook Mr. Darcy. He only meant that there was not such a variety of people to

with many people in this neighbourhood, I believe there are few n

directed her eyes towards Mr. Darcy with a very expressive smile. Elizabeth, for the sake of saying something th

the man of fashion! So genteel and easy! He has always something to say to everybody. That is my idea of good bree

otte dine

wn work; my daughters are brought up very differently. But everybody is to judge for themselves, and the Lucases are a very good sort of

very pleasant

n see anybody better looking. It is what everybody says. I do not trust my own partiality. When she was only fifteen, there was a man at my brother Gardiner's in town so much in love with her that

has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder

nsider poetry as the fo

strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclinatio

logy for troubling him also with Lizzy. Mr. Bingley was unaffectedly civil in his answer, and forced his younger sister to be civil also, and say what the occasion required. She performed her part indeed without much graciousness, but Mrs. Bennet was satisfied, and soon afterwards ordered her carria

ort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the officers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance. She was very equal, therefore, to address Mr. Bingl

your sister is recovered, you shall, if you please, name the very d

ime most likely Captain Carter would be at Meryton again. And when you have given your ball," she added, "I

her relations' behaviour to the remarks of the two ladies and Mr. Darcy; the latter of whom, however, could