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"He is perfectly well-behaved, polite, and unassuming," said her

uncle.

"There is something a little stately in him, to be sure," replied

her aunt; "but it is confined to his air, and is not unbecoming.

I can now say with the housekeeper, that though some people may

call him proud, I have seen nothing of it."

"I was never more surprised than by his behaviour to us. It was

more than civil; it was really attentive; and there was no

necessity for such attention. His acquaintance with Elizabeth was

very trifling."

"To be sure, Lizzy," said her aunt, "he is not so handsome as

Wickham; or rather he has not Wickham's countenance, for his

features are perfectly good. But how came you to tell us that he

was so disagreeable?"

Elizabeth excused herself as well as she could: said that she had

liked him better when they met in Kent than before, and that she

had never seen him so pleasant as this morning.