But to be candid without ostentation or design — to take the good of every body's character and make it still better,
and say nothing of the bad — belongs to you alone.—
And so you like this man's sisters, too, do you?
Their manners are not equal to his.”
— “Certainly not;
at first.
But they are very pleasing women when you converse with them.
Miss Bingley is to live with her brother and keep keep his house;
and I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbour in her.”
Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced;
their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general;
and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister,
and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.