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“Both,” replied Elizabeth archly; “for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds.

— We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”

“This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure,” said he. “How near it may be to mine I cannot pretend to say. — You think it a faithful portrait undoubtedly.”

“I must not decide on my own performance.”

He made no answer, and they were again silent till they had gone down the dance, when he asked her if she and her sisters did not very often walk to Meryton.

She answered in the affirmative, and, unable to resist the temptation, added,

“When you met us there the other day, we had just been forming a new acquaintance.”