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only just tolerable.<br />
MRS. BENNET<br />
I beg you would not put it into Lizzy's head to be vexed by his ill-treatment, it would be quite a<br />
misfortune to be liked by him. Lizzy not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been<br />
there, my dear, and given him one of your set-downs. I quite detest the man.<br />
LYDIA<br />
I danced with Captain Carter twice. I hope to see him in the course of the day; he is going next<br />
morning to London.<br />
KITTY<br />
And I danced with Mr. Denny. Meryton is to be the militia headquarters for the whole winter. I<br />
know all of the officers' names and connections.<br />
MR. BENNET<br />
From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the<br />
country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.<br />
MRS. BENNET<br />
I am astonished, my dear, that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I<br />
wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own.<br />
MR. BENNET<br />
If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.<br />
MRS. BENNET<br />
Yes—but as it happens, they are all of them very clever. (Mrs. Hill puts out the light as all exit.)<br />
SCENE 4 - PARLOR - LONGBOURN – Afternoon – Tuesday, November 12, 1811<br />
MR. HILL<br />
(Mr. Hill brings in tea.) Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand<br />
pounds from his father. Miss Caroline Bingley presides at her brother’s table—as does his eldest<br />
sister, Mrs. Hurst, who married a man of more fashion than fortune. (The family enters.)<br />
A letter addressed to Miss Bennet, Ma'am. From Netherfield Hall.<br />
MRS. BENNET<br />
Well, Jane, who is it from? What is it about? What does it say? Make haste and tell us; make<br />
haste, my love.<br />
JANE<br />
It is from Miss Caroline Bingley. ‘My Dear Friend, If you are not so compassionate as to dine<br />
today with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for<br />
a whole day's tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel. Come as soon as<br />
you can on receipt of this. My brother and the gentlemen are to dine with the officers.<br />
Yours ever, Caroline Bingley.’<br />
LYDIA<br />
With the officers! I wonder my Aunt Phillips did not tell us of Mr. Bingley dining with the<br />
officers.<br />
MARY<br />
Dining out, that is very unlucky.<br />
JANE<br />
May I have the carriage?<br />
MRS. BENNET<br />
No, my dear, you had better go on horseback.<br />
GIRLS<br />
Horseback?<br />
MRS. BENNET<br />
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