in spite of all Miss Bingley’s witticisms on fine eyes.

But he was set right there by Mrs. Bennet, who assured him with some asperity that they were very well able to keep a good cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.

Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty;

Why could he not keep on quarreling with you, as his father did before him?”

“Pride,” observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, “is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some qual

In nine cases out of ten a women had better show more affection than she feels.

This gallantry was not much to the taste of some of his hearers;

and the man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before was now high in her good graces.

The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is it not, Mr. Bingley?” “When I am in the country,” he replied, “I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town it is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.”