Austen Said:

to remain at Netherfield for the present.

Jane was by no means better.

Her manners were

very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no style, no beauty.

“She did, indeed, Louisa. I could hardly keep my countenance. Very nonsensical to come at all! Why must she be scampering about the country, because her sister had a cold? Her hair, so untidy, so blowsy!”

“You observed it, Mr. Darcy, I am sure,”

“and I am inclined to think that you would not wish to see your sister make such an exhibition.”

“To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.”

“I am afraid, Mr. Darcy,”

“that this adventure has rather affected your admiration of her fine eyes.”

“I think I have heard you say that their uncle is an attorney in Meryton.”

“That is capital,”

she would amuse herself for the short time she could stay below, with a book.

“Miss Eliza Bennet,”

“despises cards. She is a great reader, and has no pleasure in anything else.”

“I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,”

“I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.”

she could suit herself perfectly with those in the room.

“I am astonished,”

“that my father should have left so small a collection of books. What a delightful library you have at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy!”

“And then you have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying books.”

“Neglect! I am sure you neglect nothing that can add to the beauties of that noble place. Charles, when you build your house, I wish it may be half as delightful as Pemberley.”

“But I would really advise you to make your purchase in that neighbourhood, and take Pemberley for a kind of model. There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire.”

“I am talking of possibilities, Charles.”

“Is Miss Darcy much grown since the spring?”

“will she be as tall as I am?”

“How I long to see her again! I never met with anybody who delighted me so much. Such a countenance, such manners! And so extremely accomplished for her age! Her performance on the pianoforte is exquisite.”

“All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?”

“Nor I, I am sure,”

“Then,”

“you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman.”

“Oh! certainly,”

“no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.”

“I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.”

“I never saw such a woman. I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe united.”

“Elizabeth Bennet,”

“is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art.”

her sister was worse, and that she could not leave her.

to have a note sent to Longbourn, desiring her mother to visit Jane, and form her own judgement of her situation.

“She is a great deal too ill to be moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of moving her. We must trespass a little longer on your kindness.”

“You may depend upon it, Madam,”

“that Miss Bennet shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us.”

“if it was not for such good friends I do not know what would become of her, for she is very ill indeed, and suffers a vast deal, though with the greatest patience in the world, 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, and a charming prospect over the gravel walk. I do not know a place in the country that is equal to Netherfield. You will not think of quitting it in a hurry, I hope, though you have but a short lease.”

“That is exactly what I should have supposed of you,”

“Oh! yes — I understand you perfectly.”

“That is as it happens. It does not necessarily follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours.”

“remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home.”

“Yes, but intricate characters are the most amusing. They have at least that advantage.”

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

“I assure you there is quite as much of that going on in the country as in town.”