— And, if I may mention so delicate a subject,
endeavour to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses.”
— “Have you anything else to propose for my domestic felicity?”
“Oh! yes.
Do let the portraits of your uncle and aunt Philips be placed in the gallery at Pemberley.
Put them next to your great uncle the judge.
They are in the same profession, you know, only in different lines.
As for your Elizabeth's picture, you must not attempt to have it taken,
for what painter could do justice to those beautiful eyes?”
— “It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression,
but their colour and shape, and the eye-lashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.”
At that moment they were met from another walk by Mrs. Hurst and Elizabeth herself.
— “I did not know that you intended to walk,”
said Miss Bingley, in some confusion, lest they had been overheard.