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1The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met with
2pleasanter people or prettier girls in his life; everybody had been most kind and attentive to him; there had been no
3formality, no stiffness; he had soon felt acquainted with all the room; and as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an
4angel more beautiful. Darcy, on the contrary, had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no
5fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or pleasure. Miss
6Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty; but she smiled too much. Mrs. Hurst and her sister allowed it to be so; but still
7they admired her and liked her, and pronounced her to be a sweet girl, and one whom they should not object to know more
8of. Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl; and their brother felt authorized by such commendation to
9think of her as he chose. [Illustration: [Copyright 1894 by George Allen.]] CHAPTER V. [Illustration] Within a short
10walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly
11in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the
12king during his mayoralty. The distinction had, perhaps, been felt too strongly. It had given him a disgust to his
13business and to his residence in a small market town; and, quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house
14about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge; where he could think with pleasure of his own
15importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world. For, though elated by
16his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody. By nature inoffensive,
17friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous. Lady Lucas was a very good kind of
18woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet. They had several children. The eldest of them, a
19sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend. That the Miss Lucases and the
20Miss Bennets should meet to talk over a ball was absolutely necessary; and the morning after the assembly brought the
21former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate. "You began the evening well, Charlotte," said Mrs. Bennet, with civil
22self-command, to Miss Lucas. "You were Mr. Bingley's first choice." "Yes; but he seemed to like his second better." "Oh,
23you mean Jane, I suppose, because he danced with her twice. To be sure that did seem as if he admired her--indeed, I
24rather believe he did--I heard something about it--but I hardly know what--something about Mr. Robinson." "Perhaps you
25mean what I overheard between him and Mr. Robinson: did not I mention it to you? Mr. Robinson's asking him how he liked
26our Meryton assemblies, and whether he did not think there were a great many pretty women in the room, and which he
27thought the prettiest? and his answering immediately to the last question, 'Oh, the eldest Miss Bennet, beyond a doubt:
28there cannot be two opinions on that point.'" "Upon my word! Well, that was very decided, indeed--that does seem as
29if--but, however, it may all come to nothing, you know." "My overhearings were more to the purpose than yours, Eliza,"
30said Charlotte. "Mr. Darcy is not so well worth listening to as his friend, is he? Poor Eliza! to be only just
31tolerable." "I beg you will not put it into Lizzy's head to be vexed by his ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable
32man that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. Mrs. Long told me last night that he sat close to her for
33half an hour without once opening his lips." [Illustration: "Without once opening his lips" [Copyright 1894 by George
34Allen.]] "Are you quite sure, ma'am? Is not there a little mistake?" said Jane. "I certainly saw Mr. Darcy speaking to
35her." "Ay, because she asked him at last how he liked Netherfield, and he could not help answering her; but she said he
36seemed very angry at being spoke to." "Miss Bingley told me," said Jane, "that he never speaks much unless among his
37intimate acquaintance. With them he is remarkably agreeable." "I do not believe a word of it, my dear. If he had been so
38very agreeable, he would have talked to Mrs. Long. But I can guess how it was; everybody says that he is eat up with
39pride, and I dare say he had heard somehow that Mrs. Long does not keep a carriage, and had to come to the ball in a
40hack chaise." "I do not mind his not talking to Mrs. Long," said Miss Lucas, "but I wish he had danced with Eliza."
41"Another time, Lizzy," said her mother, "I would not dance with him, if I were you." "I believe, ma'am, I may safely
42promise you never to dance with him." "His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend me so much as pride often does,
43because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in
44his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud." "That is very true,"
45replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine." "Pride," observed Mary, who
46piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read,
47I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few
48of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity
49and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain.
50Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us." "If I were as rich as
51Mr. Darcy," cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, "I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of
52foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine every day." "Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought," said Mrs.
53Bennet; "and if I were to see you at it, I should take away your bottle directly." The boy protested that she should
54not; she continued to declare that she would; and the argument ended only with the visit. [Illustration] [Illustration]
55CHAPTER VI. [Illustration] The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was returned in due
56form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the good-will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was
57found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with them was
58expressed towards the two eldest. By Jane this attention was received with the greatest pleasure; but Elizabeth still
59saw superciliousness in their treatment of everybody, hardly excepting even her sister, and could not like them; though
60their kindness to Jane, such as it was, had a value, as arising, in all probability, from the influence of their
61brother's admiration. It was generally evident, whenever they met, that he did admire her; and to her it was equally
62evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a
63way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in
64general, since Jane united with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and an uniform cheerfulness of manner,
65which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent. She mentioned this to her friend, Miss Lucas.
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