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Pride & Prejudice – page 545

Pride and Prejudice

“’Tis an etiquette I despise,” said he. “If he wants our

society, let him seek it. He knows where we live. I will

not spend my hours in running after my neighbours

every time they go away and come back again.”

“Well, all I know is, that it will be abominably rude

if you do not wait on him. But, however, that shan’t

prevent my asking him to dine here, I am determined.

We must have Mrs. Long and the Gouldings soon. That

will make thirteen with ourselves, so there will be just

room at table for him.”

Consoled by this resolution, she was the better able

to bear her husband’s incivility; though it was very

mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see

Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before they did. As

the day of his arrival drew near:

“I begin to be sorry that he comes at all,” said Jane

to her sister. “It would be nothing; I could see him with

perfect indifference, but I can hardly bear to hear it thus

perpetually talked of. My mother means well; but she

does not know, no one can know, how much I suffer

from what she says. Happy shall I be, when his stay at

Netherfield is over!”

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