Jane Austen
Their manners are not
equal to his."
"Certainly not--at first. But they are very pleasing women when you converse with them.
Miss Bingley is to live with her brother, and keep his house; and I am much mistaken if we
shall not find a very charming neighbour in her."
Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced; their behaviour at the assembly had
not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less
pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to
herself, she was very little disposed to approve them. They were in fact very fine ladies; not
deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of making themselves
agreeable when they chose it, but proud and conceited. They were rather handsome, had
been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty
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