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1"Well, girls," said she, as soon as they were left to themselves, "what say you to the day? I think everything has
2passed off uncommonly well, I assure you. The dinner was as well dressed as any I ever saw. The venison was roasted to a
3turn--and everybody said, they never saw so fat a haunch. The soup was fifty times better than what we had at the
4Lucases' last week; and even Mr. Darcy acknowledged that the partridges were remarkably well done; and I suppose he has
5two or three French cooks at least. And, my dear Jane, I never saw you look in greater beauty. Mrs. Long said so too,
6for I asked her whether you did not. And what do you think she said besides? 'Ah! Mrs. Bennet, we shall have her at
7Netherfield at last!' She did, indeed. I do think Mrs. Long is as good a creature as ever lived--and her nieces are very
8pretty behaved girls, and not at all handsome: I like them prodigiously." [Illustration: "M^{rs}. Long and her nieces."
9] Mrs. Bennet, in short, was in very great spirits: she had seen enough of Bingley's behaviour to Jane to be convinced
10that she would get him at last; and her expectations of advantage to her family, when in a happy humour, were so far
11beyond reason, that she was quite disappointed at not seeing him there again the next day, to make his proposals. "It
12has been a very agreeable day," said Miss Bennet to Elizabeth. "The party seemed so well selected, so suitable one with
13the other. I hope we may often meet again." Elizabeth smiled. "Lizzy, you must not do so. You must not suspect me. It
14mortifies me. I assure you that I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an agreeable and sensible young man
15without having a wish beyond it. I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design
16of engaging my affection. It is only that he is blessed with greater sweetness of address, and a stronger desire of
17generally pleasing, than any other man." "You are very cruel," said her sister, "you will not let me smile, and are
18provoking me to it every moment." "How hard it is in some cases to be believed! And how impossible in others! But why
19should you wish to persuade me that I feel more than I acknowledge?" "That is a question which I hardly know how to
20answer. We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. Forgive me; and if you persist in
21indifference, do not make me your confidante." [Illustration: "Lizzy, my dear, I want to speak to you." ] CHAPTER LV.
22[Illustration] A few days after this visit, Mr. Bingley called again, and alone. His friend had left him that morning
23for London, but was to return home in ten days' time. He sat with them above an hour, and was in remarkably good
24spirits. Mrs. Bennet invited him to dine with them; but, with many expressions of concern, he confessed himself engaged
25elsewhere. "Next time you call," said she, "I hope we shall be more lucky." He should be particularly happy at any time,
26etc., etc.; and if she would give him leave, would take an early opportunity of waiting on them. "Can you come
27to-morrow?" Yes, he had no engagement at all for to-morrow; and her invitation was accepted with alacrity. He came, and
28in such very good time, that the ladies were none of them dressed. In ran Mrs. Bennet to her daughters' room, in her
29dressing-gown, and with her hair half finished, crying out,-- "My dear Jane, make haste and hurry down. He is come--Mr.
30Bingley is come. He is, indeed. Make haste, make haste. Here, Sarah, come to Miss Bennet this moment, and help her on
31with her gown. Never mind Miss Lizzy's hair." "We will be down as soon as we can," said Jane; "but I dare say Kitty is
32forwarder than either of us, for she went upstairs half an hour ago." "Oh! hang Kitty! what has she to do with it? Come,
33be quick, be quick! where is your sash, my dear?" But when her mother was gone, Jane would not be prevailed on to go
34down without one of her sisters. The same anxiety to get them by themselves was visible again in the evening. After tea,
35Mr. Bennet retired to the library, as was his custom, and Mary went upstairs to her instrument. Two obstacles of the
36five being thus removed, Mrs. Bennet sat looking and winking at Elizabeth and Catherine for a considerable time, without
37making any impression on them. Elizabeth would not observe her; and when at last Kitty did, she very innocently said,
38"What is the matter, mamma? What do you keep winking at me for? What am I to do?" "Nothing, child, nothing. I did not
39wink at you." She then sat still five minutes longer; but unable to waste such a precious occasion, she suddenly got up,
40and saying to Kitty,-- "Come here, my love, I want to speak to you," took her out of the room. Jane instantly gave a
41look at Elizabeth which spoke her distress at such premeditation, and her entreaty that she would not give in to it. In
42a few minutes, Mrs. Bennet half opened the door and called out,-- "Lizzy, my dear, I want to speak with you." Elizabeth
43was forced to go. "We may as well leave them by themselves, you know," said her mother as soon as she was in the hall.
44"Kitty and I are going upstairs to sit in my dressing-room." Elizabeth made no attempt to reason with her mother, but
45remained quietly in the hall till she and Kitty were out of sight, then returned into the drawing-room. Mrs. Bennet's
46schemes for this day were ineffectual. Bingley was everything that was charming, except the professed lover of her
47daughter. His ease and cheerfulness rendered him a most agreeable addition to their evening party; and he bore with the
48ill-judged officiousness of the mother, and heard all her silly remarks with a forbearance and command of countenance
49particularly grateful to the daughter. He scarcely needed an invitation to stay supper; and before he went away an
50engagement was formed, chiefly through his own and Mrs. Bennet's means, for his coming next morning to shoot with her
51husband. After this day, Jane said no more of her indifference. Not a word passed between the sisters concerning
52Bingley; but Elizabeth went to bed in the happy belief that all must speedily be concluded, unless Mr. Darcy returned
53within the stated time. Seriously, however, she felt tolerably persuaded that all this must have taken place with that
54gentleman's concurrence. Bingley was punctual to his appointment; and he and Mr. Bennet spent the morning together, as
55had been agreed on. The latter was much more agreeable than his companion expected. There was nothing of presumption or
56folly in Bingley that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into silence; and he was more communicative, and less
57eccentric, than the other had ever seen him. Bingley of course returned with him to dinner; and in the evening Mrs.
58Bennet's invention was again at work to get everybody away from him and her daughter. Elizabeth, who had a letter to
59write, went into the breakfast-room for that purpose soon after tea; for as the others were all going to sit down to
60cards, she could not be wanted to counteract her mother's schemes. But on her returning to the drawing-room, when her
61letter was finished, she saw, to her infinite surprise, there was reason to fear that her mother had been too ingenious
62for her. On opening the door, she perceived her sister and Bingley standing together over the hearth, as if engaged in
63earnest conversation; and had this led to no suspicion, the faces of both, as they hastily turned round and moved away
64from each other, would have told it all. Their situation was awkward enough; but hers she thought was still worse. Not a
65syllable was uttered by either; and Elizabeth was on the point of going away again, when Bingley, who as well as the
66other had sat down, suddenly rose, and, whispering a few words to her sister, ran out of the room. Jane could have no
67reserves from Elizabeth, where confidence would give pleasure; and, instantly embracing her, acknowledged, with the
68liveliest emotion, that she was the happiest creature in the world. "'Tis too much!" she added, "by far too much. I do
69not deserve it. Oh, why is not everybody as happy?"
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