lizzy
— “Lizzy,”
cried her mother,
“remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home.”
“I did not know before,”
continued Bingley immediately,
“that you were a studier of character.
It must be an amusing study.”
— “Yes, but intricate characters are the most amusing.
They have at least that advantage.”
— “The country,”
said Darcy,
“can in general supply but a few subjects for such a study.
In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society.”
— “But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them forever.”
— “Yes, indeed,”
cried Mrs. Bennet, offended by his manner of mentioning a country neighbourhood.
“I assure you there is quite as much of that going on in the country as in town.”