Jane Austen
exceedingly shy. She found it difficult to obtain even a word from her beyond a
monosyllable.
Miss Darcy was tall, and on a larger scale than Elizabeth; and, though little more than
sixteen, her figure was formed, and her appearance womanly and graceful. She was less
handsome than her brother; but there was sense and good humour in her face, and her
manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle. Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her
as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been, was much relieved by
discerning such different feelings.
They had not long been together before Mr. Darcy told her that Bingley was also coming
to wait on her; and she had barely time to express her satisfaction, and prepare for such a
visitor, when Bingley's quick step was heard on the stairs, and in a moment he entered the
room. All Elizabeth's anger against him had been long done away; but had she still felt any,
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