Austen Said:

though it was very mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before they did.

to be civil to him only as Mr. Bingley's friend,

to dine at Longbourn in a few days time.

anything less than two courses could be good enough for a man

or satisfy the appetite and pride of one who had ten thousand a year.

their carriage was unluckily ordered before any of the others,

no opportunity of detaining them.

she would get him at last;

Two obstacles of the five being thus removed,

Bingley was every thing that was charming, except the professed lover of her daughter.

unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner which he thought himself obliged to accept.

they never sat there after dinner,

to take some refreshment;

why Lady Catherine would not come in again and rest herself.