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Pride & Prejudice – page 148

JANE AUSTEN

and the rest from the pride of her nephew, who chooses

that everyone connected with him should have an

understanding of the first class.”

Elizabeth allowed that he had given a very rational

account of it, and they continued talking together, with

mutual satisfaction till supper put an end to cards, and

gave the rest of the ladies their share of Mr. Wickham’s

attentions. There could be no conversation in the noise

of Mrs. Phillips’s supper party, but his manners recom-

mended him to everybody. Whatever he said, was said

well; and whatever he did, done gracefully. Elizabeth

went away with her head full of him. She could think

of nothing but of Mr. Wickham, and of what he had

told her, all the way home; but there was not time for

her even to mention his name as they went, for neither

Lydia nor Mr. Collins were once silent. Lydia talked

incessantly of lottery tickets, of the fish she had lost and

the fish she had won; and Mr. Collins in describing the

civility of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, protesting that he did

not in the least regard his losses at whist, enumerating

all the dishes at supper, and repeatedly fearing that he

crowded his cousins, had more to say than he could

well manage before the carriage stopped at Longbourn

House.

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