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To Elizabeth it appeared, that had her family made an agreement

to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it

would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more

spirit, or finer success; and happy did she think it for Bingley

and her sister that some of the exhibition had escaped his

notice, and that his feelings were not of a sort to be much

distressed by the folly which he must have witnessed. That his

two sisters and Mr. Darcy, however, should have such an

opportunity of ridiculing her relations was bad enough; and she

could not determine whether the silent contempt of the gentleman,

or the insolent smiles of the ladies, were more intolerable.