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— “Your list of the common extent of accomplishments,”

said Darcy,

“has too much truth.

The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse, or covering a skreen.

But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general.

I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance,

that are really accomplished.”

— “Nor I, I am sure,”

said Miss Bingley.

— “Then,”

observed Elizabeth,

“you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman.”

— “Yes, I do comprehend a great deal in it.”

— “Oh! certainly,”

cried his faithful assistant,

“no one can be really esteemed accomplished, who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word;

and besides all this,

she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking,

the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved.”