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"Perhaps you mean what I overheard between him and Mr. Robinson:

did not I mention it to you? Mr. Robinson's asking him how he

liked our Meryton assemblies, and whether he did not think there

were a great many pretty women in the room, and which he thought

the prettiest? and his answering immediately to the last

question, 'Oh, the eldest Miss Bennet, beyond a doubt: there

cannot be two opinions on that point.'"

"Upon my word! Well, that was very decided, indeed--that does

seem as if--but, however, it may all come to nothing, you know."

"My overhearings were more to the purpose than yours, Eliza,"

said Charlotte. "Mr. Darcy is not so well worth listening to as

his friend, is he? Poor Eliza! to be only just tolerable."

"I beg you will not put it into Lizzy's head to be vexed by his

ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable man that it would be

quite a misfortune to be liked by him. Mrs. Long told me last

night that he sat close to her for half an hour without once

opening his lips."

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