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+Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five
+daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her
+husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked him
+in various ways--with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and
+distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at
+last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour,
+Lady Lucas. Her report was highly favourable. Sir William had been
+delighted with him. He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely
+agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly
+with a large party. Nothing could be more delightful! To be fond of
+dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively
+hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.
+
+“If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield,”
+ said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, “and all the others equally well
+married, I shall have nothing to wish for.”
+
+In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about
+ten minutes with him in his library. He had entertained hopes of being
+admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had
+heard much; but he saw only the father. The ladies were somewhat more
+fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper
+window that he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse.
+
+An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already
+had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her
+housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all. Mr. Bingley
+was obliged to be in town the following day, and, consequently, unable
+to accept the honour of their invitation, etc. Mrs. Bennet was quite
+disconcerted. She could not imagine what business he could have in town
+so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that
+he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never
+settled at Netherfield as he ought to be. Lady Lucas quieted her fears
+a little by starting the idea of his being gone to London only to get
+a large party for the ball; and a report soon followed that Mr. Bingley
+was to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen with him to the assembly.
+The girls grieved over such a number of ladies, but were comforted the
+day before the ball by hearing, that instead of twelve he brought only
+six with him from London--his five sisters and a cousin. And when
+the party entered the assembly room it consisted of only five
+altogether--Mr. Bingley, his two sisters, the husband of the eldest, and
+another young man.
+
+Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant
+countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women,
+with an air of decided fashion. His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely
+looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention
+of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and
+the report which was in general circulation within five minutes
+after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year. The gentlemen
+pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he
+was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great
+admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust
+which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be
+proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all
+his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most
+forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared
+with his friend.
+
+Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal
+people in the room; he was lively and unreserved, danced every dance,
+was angry that the ball closed so early, and talked of giving
+one himself at Netherfield. Such amiable qualities must speak for
+themselves. What a contrast between him and his friend! Mr. Darcy danced
+only once with Mrs. Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, declined being
+introduced to any other lady, and spent the rest of the evening in
+walking about the room, speaking occasionally to one of his own party.
+His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man
+in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.
+Amongst the most violent against him was Mrs. Bennet, whose dislike of
+his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his
+having slighted one of her daughters.
+
+Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit
+down for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr. Darcy had been
+standing near enough for her to hear a conversation between him and Mr.
+Bingley, who came from the dance for a few minutes, to press his friend
+to join it.
+
+“Come, Darcy,” said he, “I must have you dance. I hate to see you
+standing about by yourself in this stupid manner. You had much better
+dance.”
+
+“I certainly shall not. You know how I detest it, unless I am
+particularly acquainted with my partner. At such an assembly as this
+it would be insupportable. Your sisters are engaged, and there is not
+another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to
+stand up with.”
+
+“I would not be so fastidious as you are,” cried Mr. Bingley, “for a
+kingdom! Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in
+my life as I have this evening; and there are several of them you see
+uncommonly pretty.”
+
+“_You_ are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room,” said Mr.
+Darcy, looking at the eldest Miss Bennet.
+
+“Oh! She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld! But there is one
+of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I
+dare say very agreeable. Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.”
+
+“Which do you mean?” and turning round he looked for a moment at
+Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said:
+“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt _me_; I am in no
+humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted
+by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her
+smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”
+
+Mr. Bingley followed his advice. Mr. Darcy walked off; and Elizabeth
+remained with no very cordial feelings toward him. She told the story,
+however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively,
+playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.
+
+The evening altogether passed off pleasantly to the whole family. Mrs.
+Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the Netherfield
+party. Mr. Bingley had danced with her twice, and she had been
+distinguished by his sisters. Jane was as much gratified by this as
+her mother could be, though in a quieter way. Elizabeth felt Jane's
+pleasure. Mary had heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the most
+accomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Catherine and Lydia had been
+fortunate enough never to be without partners, which was all that they
+had yet learnt to care for at a ball. They returned, therefore, in good
+spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which they
+were the principal inhabitants. They found Mr. Bennet still up. With
+a book he was regardless of time; and on the present occasion he had a
+good deal of curiosity as to the event of an evening which had raised
+such splendid expectations. He had rather hoped that his wife's views on
+the stranger would be disappointed; but he soon found out that he had a
+different story to hear.
+
+“Oh! my dear Mr. Bennet,” as she entered the room, “we have had a most
+delightful evening, a most excellent ball. I wish you had been there.
+Jane was so admired, nothing could be like it. Everybody said how well
+she looked; and Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with
+her twice! Only think of _that_, my dear; he actually danced with her
+twice! and she was the only creature in the room that he asked a second
+time. First of all, he asked Miss Lucas. I was so vexed to see him stand
+up with her! But, however, he did not admire her at all; indeed, nobody
+can, you know; and he seemed quite struck with Jane as she was going
+down the dance. So he inquired who she was, and got introduced, and
+asked her for the two next. Then the two third he danced with Miss King,
+and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane again,
+and the two sixth with Lizzy, and the _Boulanger_--”
+
+“If he had had any compassion for _me_,” cried her husband impatiently,
+“he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of
+his partners. Oh that he had sprained his ankle in the first dance!”
+
+“Oh! my dear, I am quite delighted with him. He is so excessively
+handsome! And his sisters are charming women. I never in my life saw
+anything more elegant than their dresses. I dare say the lace upon Mrs.
+Hurst's gown--”
+
+Here she was interrupted again. Mr. Bennet protested against any
+description of finery. She was therefore obliged to seek another branch
+of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some
+exaggeration, the shocking rudeness of Mr. Darcy.
+
+“But I can assure you,” she added, “that Lizzy does not lose much by not
+suiting _his_ fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at
+all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited that there was no enduring
+him! He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very
+great! Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my
+dear, to have given him one of your set-downs. I quite detest the man.”