Name: Pride & Prejudice | Chapter 6-8 (Audiobook)（Pride & Prejudice | Chapter 6-8 (Audiobook)）
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The ladies of Longbourn soon waited  on those of Netherfield. The visit 

was soon returned in due form. Miss  Bennet's pleasing manners grew on 

the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss  Bingley; and though the mother was 

found to be intolerable, and the  younger sisters not worth speaking to, 

a wish of being better acquainted  with _them_ was expressed towards 

the two eldest. By Jane, this attention  was received with the greatest 

pleasure, but Elizabeth still saw  superciliousness in their treatment 

of everybody, hardly excepting even  her sister, and could not like them; 

though their kindness to Jane, such  as it was, had a value as arising in 

all probability from the influence  of their brother's admiration. It 

was generally evident whenever they  met, that he _did_ admire her and 

to _her_ it was equally evident that  Jane was yielding to the preference 

which she had begun to entertain  for him from the first, and was in a 

way to be very much in love; but  she considered with pleasure that it 

was not likely to be discovered by  the world in general, since Jane 

united, with great strength of  feeling, a composure of temper and a 

uniform cheerfulness of manner which  would guard her from the suspicions 

of the impertinent. She mentioned  this to her friend Miss Lucas.

"It may perhaps be pleasant," replied  Charlotte, "to be able to impose 

on the public in such a case; but  it is sometimes a disadvantage to be 

so very guarded. If a woman conceals  her affection with the same skill 

from the object of it, she may lose  the opportunity of fixing him; and 

it will then be but poor consolation  to believe the world equally in 

the dark. There is so much of  gratitude or vanity in almost every 

attachment, that it is not safe  to leave any to itself. We can all 

_begin_ freely--a slight preference  is natural enough; but there are 

very few of us who have heart  enough to be really in love without 

encouragement. In nine cases out of  ten a women had better show _more_ 

affection than she feels. Bingley  likes your sister undoubtedly; but he 

may never do more than like her,  if she does not help him on."

"But she does help him on, as much  as her nature will allow. If I can 

perceive her regard for  him, he must be a simpleton,  

"Remember, Eliza, that he does not  know Jane's disposition as you do."

and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out."

"Perhaps he must, if he sees enough of her.  

But, though Bingley and Jane meet tolerably often, it is  

never for many hours together; and, as they always see each other in large mixed parties,  

it is impossible that every moment should be employed  

in conversing together. Jane should therefore make the most of every  

half-hour in which she can command his attention. When she is secure of him,  

there will be more leisure for falling in love as much as she chooses."

"Your plan is a good one," replied  Elizabeth, "where nothing is in 

question but the desire of being well  married, and if I were determined 

to get a rich husband, or any husband,  I dare say I should adopt it. But 

these are not Jane's feelings; she  is not acting by design. As yet, 

she cannot even be certain of the  degree of her own regard nor of its 

reasonableness. She has known him  only a fortnight. She danced four 

dances with him at Meryton; she saw  him one morning at his own house, 

and has since dined with him in  company four times. This is not quite 

enough to make her understand his character."

"Not as you represent it. Had she  merely _dined_ with him, she might 

only have discovered whether he  had a good appetite; but you must 

remember that four evenings have  also been spent together--and four 

"Yes; these four evenings have  enabled them to ascertain that they 

both like Vingt-un better than  Commerce; but with respect to any other 

leading characteristic, I do not  imagine that much has unfolded."

"Well," said Charlotte, "I wish  Jane success with all my heart; and 

if she were married to him to-morrow,  I should think she had as good a 

chance of happiness as if she were  to be studying his character for a 

twelve months. Happiness in marriage  is entirely a matter of chance. If 

the dispositions of the parties are  ever so well known to each other or 

ever so similar beforehand, it does  not advance their felicity in the 

least. They always continue to grow  sufficiently unlike afterwards to 

have their share of vexation; and  it is better to know as little as 

possible of the defects of the  person with whom you are to  

"You make me laugh, Charlotte; but  it is not sound. You know it is not 

sound, and that you would never  act in this way yourself."

Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley's  attentions to her sister, Elizabeth 

was far from suspecting that she was  herself becoming an object of some 

interest in the eyes of his friend.  Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely 

allowed her to be pretty; he had  looked at her without admiration at the 

ball; and when they next met, he  looked at her only to criticise. But no 

sooner had he made it clear to himself  and his friends that she hardly 

had a good feature in her face, than  he began to find it was rendered 

uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful  expression of her dark eyes. To 

this discovery succeeded some others  equally mortifying. Though he had 

detected with a critical eye more  than one failure of perfect symmetry 

in her form, he was forced to  acknowledge her figure to be light and 

pleasing; and in spite of his asserting  that her manners were not those 

of the fashionable world, he was  caught by their easy playfulness. Of 

this she was perfectly unaware; to  her he was only the man who made 

himself agreeable nowhere, and who  had not thought her handsome enough 

He began to wish to know more of  her, and as a step towards conversing 

with her himself, attended to her  conversation with others. His doing so 

drew her notice. It was at Sir William Lucas's,  

said she to Charlotte, "by listening to my conversation with Colonel Forster?"

"That is a question which  Mr. Darcy only can answer."

"But if he does it any more I shall  certainly let him know that I see 

what he is about. He has a very  satirical eye, and if I do not begin by 

being impertinent myself, I  shall soon grow afraid of him."

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