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"A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those

elegant decorums which other people may observe. If she does not

object to it, why should we?"

"Her not objecting does not justify him. It only shows her being

deficient in something herself--sense or feeling."

"Well," cried Elizabeth, "have it as you choose. He shall be

mercenary, and she shall be foolish."

"No, Lizzy, that is what I do not choose. I should be sorry, you

know, to think ill of a young man who has lived so long in

Derbyshire."

"Oh, if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who

live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in

Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all. Thank

heaven! I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not

one agreeable quality, who has neither manners nor sense to

recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after

all."

"Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of

disappointment."