— “Are you quite sure, Ma'am? —
is not there a little mistake?”
said Jane.
— “I certainly saw Mr. Darcy speaking to her.”
— “Aye — because she asked him at last how he liked Netherfield,
and he could not help answering her;
but she said he seemed very angry at being spoke to.”
— “Miss Bingley told me,”
said Jane,
“that he never speaks much, unless among his intimate acquaintance.
With them he is remarkably agreeable.”
— “I do not believe a word of it, my dear.
If he had been so very agreeable, he would have talked to Mrs. Long.
But I can guess how it was;
everybody says that he is eat up with pride,
and I dare say he had heard somehow that Mrs. Long does not keep a carriage, and had come to the ball in a hack chaise.”
— “I do not mind his not talking to Mrs. Long,”
said Miss Lucas,
“but I wish he had danced with Eliza.”