When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister just how very much she admired him.
— “He is just what a young man ought to be,”
said she,
“sensible, good-humoured, lively;
and I never saw such happy manners! —
so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!”
— “He is also handsome,”
replied elizabeth
replied Elizabeth,
“which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.”
— “I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time.
I did not expect such a compliment.”
— “Did not you?
I did for you.
But that is one great difference between us.
Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
What could be more natural than his asking you again?