— “Perhaps you mean what I overheard between him and Mr. Robinson;
did not I mention it to you?
Mr. Robinson's asking him how he liked our Meryton assemblies, and whether he did not think there were a great many pretty women in the room, and which he thought the prettiest?
and his answering immediately to the last question: —
Oh! the eldest Miss Bennet, beyond a doubt, there cannot be two opinions on that point.”
— “Upon my word! —
Well, that is very decided indeed — that does seem as if—
but, however, it may all come to nothing you know.”
— “My overhearings were more to the purpose than yours, Eliza,”
said Charlotte.
“Mr. Darcy is not so well worth listening to as his friend, is he?—
Poor Eliza! —
to be only just tolerable.”
— “I beg you would not put it into Lizzy's head to be vexed by his ill-treatment,
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
Mrs. Long told me last night that he sat close to her for half an hour without once opening his lips.”