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这么优秀的一个青年，门第好，又有钱，样样都比人家强，也难怪他要自以为了不起，照我的说法，他有权利骄傲。
"Are you quite sure, ma'am?--is not there a little mistake?" said Jane. "I certainly saw Mr. Darcy speaking to her. "
"Aye--because she asked him at last how he liked Netherfield, and he could not help answering her; but she said he seemed quite angry at being spoke to. "
"Miss Bingley told me, " said Jane, "that he never speaks much, unless among his intimate acquaintances. With THEM he is remarkably agreeable. "
"I do not believe a word of it, my dear. If he had been so very agreeable, he would have talked to Mrs. Long. But I can guess how it was; everybody says that he is eat up with pride, and I dare say he had heard somehow that Mrs. Long does not keep a carriage, and had come to the ball in a hack chaise. "
"I do not mind his not talking to Mrs. Long, " said Miss Lucas, "but I wish he had danced with Eliza. "
"Another time, Lizzy, " said her mother, "I would not dance with HIM, if I were you. "
"I believe, ma'am, I may safely promise you NEVER to dance with him. "
"His pride, " said Miss Lucas, "does not offend ME so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a RIGHT to be proud. "
"That is very true, " replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE. "
"Pride, " observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. "
"If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy, " cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, "I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day. "
"Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought, " said Mrs. Bennet; "and if I were to see you at it, I should take away your bottle directly. "
The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.
