— “Another time, Lizzy,”
said her mother,
“I would not dance with him, if I were you.”
— “I believe, ma'am, I may safely promise you never to dance with him.”
— “His pride,”
said Miss Lucas,
“does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it.
One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself.
If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud.”
— “That is very true,”
replied elizabeth
replied Elizabeth,
“and I could easily forgive his pride,
if he had not mortified mine.”
— “Pride,”
observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections,
“is a very common failing, I believe.