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Pride & Prejudice – page 39

Chapter 6

The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of

Netherfield. The visit was soon returned in due form.

Miss Bennet’s pleasing manners grew on the goodwill

of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother

was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not

worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted

with them was expressed towards the two eldest. By

Jane, this attention was received with the greatest

pleasure, but Elizabeth still saw superciliousness in

their treatment of everybody, hardly excepting even her

sister, and could not like them; though their kindness

to Jane, such as it was, had a value as arising in

all probability from the influence of their brother’s

admiration. It was generally evident whenever they

met, that he did admire her and to her it was equally

evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which

she had begun to entertain for him from the first,

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