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Miss Bingley was\r\nengrossed by Mr. Darcy, her sister scarcely less so; and as for Mr.\r\nHurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to\r\neat, drink, and play at cards, who, when he found her prefer a plain\r\ndish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her.\r\n\r\nWhen dinner was over, she returned directly to Jane, and Miss Bingley\r\nbegan abusing her as soon as she was out of the room. Her manners were\r\npronounced to be very bad indeed,--a mixture of pride and impertinence:\r\nshe had no conversation, no style, no taste, no beauty. Mrs. Hurst\r\nthought the same, and added,--\r\n\r\n“She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent\r\nwalker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She really\r\nlooked almost wild.”\r\n\r\n“She did indeed, Louisa. I could hardly keep my countenance. Very\r\nnonsensical to come at all! Why must _she_ be scampering about the\r\ncountry, because her sister had a cold? Her hair so untidy, so blowzy!”\r\n\r\n“Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep\r\nin mud, I am absolutely certain, and the gown which had been let down to\r\nhide it not doing its office.”\r\n\r\n“Your picture may be very exact, Louisa,” said Bingley; “but this was\r\nall lost upon me. I thought Miss Elizabeth Bennet looked remarkably well\r\nwhen she came into the room this morning. Her dirty petticoat quite\r\nescaped my notice.”\r\n\r\n“_You_ observed it, Mr. Darcy, I am sure,” said Miss Bingley; “and I am\r\ninclined to think that you would not wish to see _your sister_ make such\r\nan exhibition.”\r\n\r\n“Certainly not.”\r\n\r\n“To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is,\r\nabove her ancles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! what could she mean by\r\nit? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence,\r\na most country-town indifference to decorum.”\r\n\r\n“It shows an affection for her sister that is very pleasing,” said\r\nBingley.\r\n\r\n“I am afraid, Mr. Darcy,” observed Miss Bingley, in a half whisper,\r\n“that this adventure has rather affected your admiration of her fine\r\neyes.”\r\n\r\n“Not at all,” he replied: “they were brightened by the exercise.” A\r\nshort pause followed this speech, and Mrs. Hurst began again,--\r\n\r\n“I have an excessive regard for Jane Bennet,--she is really a very sweet\r\ngirl,--and I wish with all my heart she were well settled. But with such\r\na father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no\r\nchance of it.”\r\n\r\n“I think I have heard you say that their uncle is an attorney in\r\nMeryton?”\r\n\r\n“Yes; and they have another, who lives somewhere near Cheapside.”\r\n\r\n“That is capital,” added her sister; and they both laughed heartily.\r\n\r\n“If they had uncles enough to fill _all_ Cheapside,” cried Bingley, “it\r\nwould not make them one jot less agreeable.”\r\n\r\n“But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any\r\nconsideration in the world,” replied Darcy.\r\n\r\nTo this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their\r\nhearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of\r\ntheir dear friend’s vulgar relations.\r\n\r\nWith a renewal of tenderness, however, they repaired to her room on\r\nleaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee.\r\nShe was still very poorly, and Elizabeth would not quit her at all, till\r\nlate in the evening, when she had the comfort of seeing her asleep, and\r\nwhen it appeared to her rather right than pleasant that she should go\r\ndown stairs herself. On entering the drawing-room, she found the whole\r\nparty at loo, and was immediately invited to join them; but suspecting\r\nthem to be playing high, she declined it, and making her sister the\r\nexcuse, said she would amuse herself, for the short time she could stay\r\nbelow, with a book. Mr. Hurst looked at her with astonishment.\r\n\r\n“Do you prefer reading to cards?” said he; “that is rather singular.”\r\n\r\n“Miss Eliza Bennet,” said Miss Bingley, “despises cards. She is a great\r\nreader, and has no pleasure in anything else.”\r\n\r\n“I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,” cried Elizabeth; “I\r\nam _not_ a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.”\r\n\r\n“In nursing your sister I am sure you have pleasure,” said Bingley; “and\r\nI hope it will soon be increased by seeing her quite well.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth thanked him from her heart, and then walked towards a table\r\nwhere a few books were lying. He immediately offered to fetch her\r\nothers; all that his library afforded.\r\n\r\n“And I wish my collection were larger for your benefit and my own\r\ncredit; but I am an idle fellow; and though I have not many, I have more\r\nthan I ever looked into.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth assured him that she could suit herself perfectly with those\r\nin the room.\r\n\r\n“I am astonished,” said Miss Bingley, “that my father should have left\r\nso small a collection of books. What a delightful library you have at\r\nPemberley, Mr. Darcy!”\r\n\r\n“It ought to be good,” he replied: “it has been the work of many\r\ngenerations.”\r\n\r\n“And then you have added so much to it yourself--you are always buying\r\nbooks.”\r\n\r\n“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as\r\nthese.”\r\n\r\n“Neglect! I am sure you neglect nothing that can add to the beauties of\r\nthat noble place. Charles, when you build _your_ house, I wish it may be\r\nhalf as delightful as Pemberley.”\r\n\r\n“I wish it may.”\r\n\r\n“But I would really advise you to make your purchase in that\r\nneighbourhood, and take Pemberley for a kind of model. There is not a\r\nfiner county in England than Derbyshire.”\r\n\r\n“With all my heart: I will buy Pemberley itself, if Darcy will sell it.”\r\n\r\n“I am talking of possibilities, Charles.”\r\n\r\n“Upon my word, Caroline, I should think it more possible to get\r\nPemberley by purchase than by imitation.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth was so much caught by what passed, as to leave her very little\r\nattention for her book; and, soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near\r\nthe card-table, and stationed herself between Mr. Bingley and his eldest\r\nsister, to observe the game.\r\n\r\n“Is Miss Darcy much grown since the spring?” said Miss Bingley: “will\r\nshe be as tall as I am?”\r\n\r\n“I think she will. She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet’s height, or\r\nrather taller.”\r\n\r\n“How I long to see her again! I never met with anybody who delighted me\r\nso much. Such a countenance, such manners, and so extremely accomplished\r\nfor her age! Her performance on the pianoforte is exquisite.”\r\n\r\n“It is amazing to me,” said Bingley, “how young ladies can have patience\r\nto be so very accomplished as they all are.”\r\n\r\n“All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?”\r\n\r\n“Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover screens, and\r\nnet purses. I scarcely know any one who cannot do all this; and I am\r\nsure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without\r\nbeing informed that she was very accomplished.”\r\n\r\n“Your list of the common extent of accomplishments,” said Darcy, “has\r\ntoo much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no\r\notherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen; but I am very\r\nfar from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I\r\ncannot boast of knowing more than half-a-dozen in the whole range of my\r\nacquaintance that are really accomplished.”\r\n\r\n“Nor I, I am sure,” said Miss Bingley.\r\n\r\n“Then,” observed Elizabeth, “you must comprehend a great deal in your\r\nidea of an accomplished woman.”\r\n\r\n“Yes; I do comprehend a great deal in it.”\r\n\r\n“Oh, certainly,” cried his faithful assistant, “no one can be really\r\nesteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met\r\nwith."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJRRD3TNE5A6AKAVXSRFT9RC","peer_label":"pride-and-prejudice","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJRRC2C7K6XERRJES8143XGV","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJRRF0886HKAEXJPHPK5R594","peer_label":"charles bingley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFA09NE4B0H592GFW4GC8","peer_label":"louisa hurst","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF9YT9F8Z9BAXYRC3SHK6","peer_label":"fitzwilliam darcy","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZGM87R12EADFF6YZZG3","peer_label":"jane bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZKG263C7SQSDV3TZ5MX","peer_label":"elizabeth bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF7M6PWKTFGVY5GSW3MFX","peer_label":"caroline bingley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZ9ES6JCT32MXQCVR11Y","peer_label":"mr hurst","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZH1WA49EQP66J0ZHR6G","peer_label":"derbyshire","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"county","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZJ8A0QJK2TXKT8DT57S","peer_label":"pemberley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"estate","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF9M2538MHHJ98FNAFJA7","peer_label":"georgiana darcy","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF0QZTC5KJ63MKYZHD3F9","peer_label":"meryton","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"town","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF0BR23NFBY96G5423J10","peer_label":"pianoforte","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"musical_instrument","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG93JPEM94X7E1Y4Q1K1P","peer_label":"darcys library","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"collection","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG942244VXS4M7CZD0W06","peer_label":"jane bennets attorney uncle","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG9A2PJZXPKHG02RV350J","peer_label":"cheapside","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"street_or_area","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG98CTZKE0YECSZNANZ6J","peer_label":"charles bingleys library","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"collection","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG99AEFPBY0BN0327DES3","peer_label":"social accomplishments","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"concept","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG98T2DH2K490SJNJNJAA","peer_label":"loo card game","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"game","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG9PS3RFY852X002EMMN8","peer_label":"affection for her sister","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"entity","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG9WZP3ZDXKN0864Z4HXH","peer_label":"reading books","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"entity","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG9NK7N1Q3NTG67VYTRFP","peer_label":"jane bennets cheapside uncle","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG9TV52D36H58338G2E44","peer_label":"marriage prospects","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"entity","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:17.963Z"}}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:01.199Z","ts":"2026-03-03T02:30:18.784Z","edited_by":{"method":"system","user_id":"01KJ60XQBHJ0GBGTP9X8HXAPPM"}}