— “Is Miss Darcy much grown since the spring?”
said Miss Bingley;
“will she be as tall as I am?”
— “I think she will.
She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet's height,
or rather taller.”
— “How I long to see her again!
I never met with anybody who delighted me so much.
Such a countenance, such manners! —
and so extremely accomplished for her age!
Her performance on the piano-forte is exquisite.”
— “It is amazing to me,”
said Bingley,
“how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.”
— “All young ladies accomplished!
My dear Charles, what do you mean?”
— “Yes, all of them, I think.
They all paint tables, cover skreens, and net purses.
I scarcely know anyone who cannot do all this,
and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished.”