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1Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself
2again. She longed to speak, but could think of nothing to say; and after a short silence Mrs. Bennet began repeating her
3thanks to Mr. Bingley for his kindness to Jane, with an apology for troubling him also with Lizzy. Mr. Bingley was
4unaffectedly civil in his answer, and forced his younger sister to be civil also, and say what the occasion required.
5She performed her part, indeed, without much graciousness, but Mrs. Bennet was satisfied, and soon afterwards ordered
6her carriage. Upon this signal, the youngest of her daughters put herself forward. The two girls had been whispering to
7each other during the whole visit; and the result of it was, that the youngest should tax Mr. Bingley with having
8promised on his first coming into the country to give a ball at Netherfield. Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of
9fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought
10her into public at an early age. She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the
11attentions of the officers, to whom her uncle's good dinners and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased
12into assurance. She was very equal, therefore, to address Mr. Bingley on the subject of the ball, and abruptly reminded
13him of his promise; adding, that it would be the most shameful thing in the world if he did not keep it. His answer to
14this sudden attack was delightful to her mother's ear. "I am perfectly ready, I assure you, to keep my engagement; and,
15when your sister is recovered, you shall, if you please, name the very day of the ball. But you would not wish to be
16dancing while she is ill?" Lydia declared herself satisfied. "Oh yes--it would be much better to wait till Jane was
17well; and by that time, most likely, Captain Carter would be at Meryton again. And when you have given your ball," she
18added, "I shall insist on their giving one also. I shall tell Colonel Forster it will be quite a shame if he does not."
19Mrs. Bennet and her daughters then departed, and Elizabeth returned instantly to Jane, leaving her own and her
20relations' behaviour to the remarks of the two ladies and Mr. Darcy; the latter of whom, however, could not be prevailed
21on to join in their censure of her, in spite of all Miss Bingley's witticisms on fine eyes. [Illustration] CHAPTER X.
22[Illustration] The day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the
23morning with the invalid, who continued, though slowly, to mend; and, in the evening, Elizabeth joined their party in
24the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear. Mr. Darcy was writing, and Miss Bingley, seated near him, was
25watching the progress of his letter, and repeatedly calling off his attention by messages to his sister. Mr. Hurst and
26Mr. Bingley were at piquet, and Mrs. Hurst was observing their game. Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was
27sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion. The perpetual commendations of the lady
28either on his hand-writing, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern
29with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in unison with her opinion of each.
30"How delighted Miss Darcy will be to receive such a letter!" He made no answer. "You write uncommonly fast." "You are
31mistaken. I write rather slowly." "How many letters you must have occasion to write in the course of a year! Letters of
32business, too! How odious I should think them!" "It is fortunate, then, that they fall to my lot instead of to yours."
33"Pray tell your sister that I long to see her." "I have already told her so once, by your desire." "I am afraid you do
34not like your pen. Let me mend it for you. I mend pens remarkably well." "Thank you--but I always mend my own." "How can
35you contrive to write so even?" He was silent. "Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her improvement on the harp,
36and pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful little design for a table, and I think it
37infinitely superior to Miss Grantley's." "Will you give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again? At present I
38have not room to do them justice." "Oh, it is of no consequence. I shall see her in January. But do you always write
39such charming long letters to her, Mr. Darcy?" "They are generally long; but whether always charming, it is not for me
40to determine." "It is a rule with me, that a person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill." "That will
41not do for a compliment to Darcy, Caroline," cried her brother, "because he does not write with ease. He studies too
42much for words of four syllables. Do not you, Darcy?" "My style of writing is very different from yours." "Oh," cried
43Miss Bingley, "Charles writes in the most careless way imaginable. He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest."
44"My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them; by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at
45all to my correspondents." "Your humility, Mr. Bingley," said Elizabeth, "must disarm reproof." "Nothing is more
46deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an
47indirect boast." "And which of the two do you call my little recent piece of modesty?" "The indirect boast; for you are
48really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and
49carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting. The power of doing anything
50with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the
51performance. When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning, that if you ever resolved on quitting Netherfield you should be
52gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself; and yet what is there so very
53laudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself
54or anyone else?" "Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in
55the morning. And yet, upon my honour, I believed what I said of myself to be true, and I believe it at this moment. At
56least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies." "I
57daresay you believed it; but I am by no means convinced that you would be gone with such celerity. Your conduct would be
58quite as dependent on chance as that of any man I know; and if, as you were mounting your horse, a friend were to say,
59'Bingley, you had better stay till next week,' you would probably do it--you would probably not go--and, at another
60word, might stay a month." "You have only proved by this," cried Elizabeth, "that Mr. Bingley did not do justice to his
61own disposition. You have shown him off now much more than he did himself." "I am exceedingly gratified," said Bingley,
62"by your converting what my friend says into a compliment on the sweetness of my temper. But I am afraid you are giving
63it a turn which that gentleman did by no means intend; for he would certainly think the better of me if, under such a
64circumstance, I were to give a flat denial, and ride off as fast as I could." "Would Mr. Darcy then consider the
65rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?" "Upon my word, I cannot exactly
66explain the matter--Darcy must speak for himself." "You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine,
67but which I have never acknowledged. Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representation, you must
68remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has
69merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety." "To yield readily--easily--to the
70persuasion of a friend is no merit with you." "To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of
71either."
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