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She assured him that
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no one intended to play,
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and the silence of the whole party on the subject seemed to justify her. Mr. Hurst had therefore nothing to do, but to stretch himself on one of the sofas and go to sleep. Darcy took up a book; Miss Bingley did the same; and Mrs. Hurst, principally occupied in playing with her bracelets and rings, joined now and then in her brother's conversation with Miss Bennet.
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“How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
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No one made any reply. She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest for some amusement; when hearing her brother mentioning a ball to Miss Bennet, she turned suddenly towards him and said:
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“By the bye, Charles, are you really serious in meditating a dance at Netherfield? I would advise you, before you determine on it, to consult the wishes of the present party; I am much mistaken if there are not some among us to whom a ball would be rather a punishment than a pleasure.”
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“If you mean Darcy,”
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cried her brother,
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“he may go to bed, if he chooses, before it begins — but as for the ball, it is quite a settled thing; and as soon as Nicholls has made white soup enough, I shall send round my cards.”
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“I should like balls infinitely better,”
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she replied,
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“if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of the day.”
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“Much more rational, my dear Caroline, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like a ball.”
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Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room. Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious. In the desperation of her feelings, she resolved on one effort more, and, turning to Elizabeth, said:
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“Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room. I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so long in one attitude.”
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- Character: Miss Bingley
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Elizabeth was surprised, but agreed to it immediately. Miss Bingley succeeded no less in the real object of her civility; Mr. Darcy looked up. He was as much awake to the novelty of attention in that quarter as Elizabeth herself could be, and unconsciously closed his book. He was directly invited to join their party, but
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he
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declined it,
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observing that
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he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would interfere.
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“What could he mean?
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She was dying to know
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what could be his meaning”
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— and
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asked Elizabeth whether
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she could at all understand him?
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- Character: Narrator as Miss Bingley
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“Not at all,”
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- Character: Elizabeth Bennet
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was her answer;
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“but depend upon it, he means to be severe on us, and our surest way of disappointing him, will be to ask nothing about it.”
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Miss Bingley, however, was incapable of disappointing Mr. Darcy in anything, and persevered therefore in requiring an explanation of his two motives.
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“I have not the smallest objection to explaining them,”
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said he, as soon as she allowed him to speak.
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“You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking; if the first, I would be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.”
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“Oh! shocking!”
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cried Miss Bingley.
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- Text ID: 00835
“I never heard anything so abominable. How shall we punish him for such a speech?”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Miss Bingley
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00836
“Nothing so easy, if you have but the inclination,”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Elizabeth Bennet
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00837
said Elizabeth.
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Narrator
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00838
“We can all plague and punish one another. Tease him — laugh at him. Intimate as you are, you must know how it is to be done.”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Elizabeth Bennet
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00839
“But upon my honour, I do not. I do assure you that my intimacy has not yet taught me that. Tease calmness of manner and presence of mind! No, no — I feel he may defy us there. And as to laughter, we will not expose ourselves, if you please, by attempting to laugh without a subject. Mr. Darcy may hug himself.”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Miss Bingley
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00840
“Mr. Darcy is not to be laughed at!”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Elizabeth Bennet
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00841
cried Elizabeth.
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Narrator
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00842
“That is an uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would be a great loss to me to have many such acquaintances. I dearly love a laugh.”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Elizabeth Bennet
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00843
“Miss Bingley,”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Mr. Darcy
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00844
said he,
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Narrator
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00845
“has given me more credit than can be. The wisest and the best of men — nay, the wisest and best of their actions — may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Mr. Darcy
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00846
“Certainly,”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Elizabeth Bennet
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00847
replied Elizabeth —
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Narrator
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00848
“there are such people, but I hope I am not one of them. I hope I never ridicule what is wise and good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. But these, I suppose, are precisely what you are without.”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Elizabeth Bennet
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00849
“Perhaps that is not possible for anyone. But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule.”
- Novel: Pride And Prejudice
- Character: Mr. Darcy
- Link to text in chapter 11
- Text ID: 00850
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