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'Oh, my dear,' continued Mrs. Bennet, 'I am quite delighted

with him. He is so excessively handsome! and his sisters

are charming women. I never in my life saw anything more

elegant than their dresses. I daresay the lace upon Mrs.

Hurst's gown--'

Here she was interrupted again. Mr. Bennet protested

against any description of finery. She was therefore obliged

to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much

bitterness of spirit, and some exaggeration, the shocking

rudeness of Mr. Darcy.

'But I can assure you,' she added, 'that Lizzy does not lose

much by not suiting _his_ fancy; for he is a most disagreeable,

horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. So high and so con-

ceited, that there was no enduring him! He walked here,

and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! Not

handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there,

my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs. I quite

detest the man.'

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