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The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare

that she would; and the argument ended only with the visit.

CHAPTER VI.

The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The

visit was returned in due form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners

grew on the good-will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though

the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters

not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with

them was expressed towards the two eldest. By Jane this attention

was received with the greatest pleasure; but Elizabeth still saw

superciliousness in their treatment of everybody, hardly

excepting even her sister, and could not like them; though their

kindness to Jane, such as it was, had a value, as arising, in all

probability, from the influence of their brother's admiration.