Name: 第10章--簡-奧斯汀的《傲慢與偏見》。 (Chapter 10 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)
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The day passed much as the day before had done.

Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who

continued, though slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined their party in

The loo-table, however, did not appear. Mr. Darcy was writing, and Miss Bingley,

seated near him, was watching the progress of his letter and repeatedly calling off

Mr. Hurst and Mr. Bingley were at piquet, and Mrs. Hurst was observing their game.

Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what

The perpetual commendations of the lady, either on his handwriting, or on the

evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with

which her praises were received, formed a

curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.

"How delighted Miss Darcy will be to receive such a letter!"

"You write uncommonly fast." "You are mistaken.

I write rather slowly." "How many letters you must have occasion to

Letters of business, too! How odious I should think them!"

"It is fortunate, then, that they fall to my lot instead of yours."

"Pray tell your sister that I long to see her."

"I have already told her so once, by your desire."

Let me mend it for you. I mend pens remarkably well."

"Thank you--but I always mend my own." "How can you contrive to write so even?"

"Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her improvement on the harp; and pray let

her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful little design for a table,

and I think it infinitely superior to Miss Grantley's."

"Will you give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again?

At present I have not room to do them justice."

"Oh! it is of no consequence. I shall see her in January.

But do you always write such charming long letters to her, Mr. Darcy?"

"They are generally long; but whether always charming it is not for me to

"It is a rule with me, that a person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot

"That will not do for a compliment to Darcy, Caroline," cried her brother,

"because he does not write with ease. He studies too much for words of four

Do not you, Darcy?" "My style of writing is very different from

yours." "Oh!" cried Miss Bingley, "Charles writes

He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest."

"My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them--by which means my

letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents."

"Your humility, Mr. Bingley," said Elizabeth, "must disarm reproof."

"Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility.

It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."

"And which of the two do you call my little recent piece of modesty?"

"The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in writing, because

you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of

execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and

often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting

Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of

panegyric, of compliment to yourself--and

yet what is there so very laudable in a precipitance which must leave very

necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?"

"Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things

And yet, upon my honour, I believe what I said of myself to be true, and I believe it

At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely

"I dare say you believed it; but I am by no means convinced that you would be gone with

Your conduct would be quite as dependent on chance as that of any man I know; and if,

as you were mounting your horse, a friend were to say, 'Bingley, you had better stay

till next week,' you would probably do it,

you would probably not go--and at another word, might stay a month."

"You have only proved by this," cried Elizabeth, "that Mr. Bingley did not do

You have shown him off now much more than he did himself."

"I am exceedingly gratified," said Bingley, "by your converting what my friend says

into a compliment on the sweetness of my temper.

But I am afraid you are giving it a turn which that gentleman did by no means

intend; for he would certainly think better of me, if under such a circumstance I were

to give a flat denial, and ride off as fast as I could."

"Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intentions as atoned for

"Upon my word, I cannot exactly explain the matter; Darcy must speak for himself."

"You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I

Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representation, you must

remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the

merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its

"To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with

compliment to the understanding of either."

"You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and

A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without

waiting for arguments to reason one into it.

I am not particularly speaking of such a case as you have supposed about Mr.

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