Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility

Chapter 4 The Popular Sweetheart

When Jane and Elizabeth are alone together, Jane, who is not easy to praise others, expresses her heart to her sister, saying how much she loves Mr. Bingley.

"What a fine young man he is," she said, "sensible, amusing, lively, and I never saw him in such a pleasing manner! He is so generous, and very well bred! "

"He's handsome, too," replied Elizabeth. "A young man ought to be handsome, unless he can't. He's a perfect man, indeed."

"The second time he asked me to dance, I couldn't be happier. I didn't expect him to appreciate me so much."

"Did you really not think of it? I thought of it for you. However, this is the biggest difference between me and you. You are always flattered when you meet people who admire you, but I am not like this. He came to invite you again for the second time." Isn't it only natural that you dance? You are infinitely more beautiful than any other lady in the ballroom. He has eyes, so he will see it. Why should you be grateful for his courtesies? .Speaking of which, he is indeed very cute, and I have no objection to your liking him. But you have liked many stupid people before."

"My dear Lizzy!"

"Oh! I know, you are always too easy to be fond of. You never see people's shortcomings. In your eyes, everyone is a good person, and you are pleasing to the eye. I never heard you say Who's talking bad."

"I just hope it's not easy to blame a person, and I always say what comes to my mind."

"I know you are such a person, so this is where I feel strange about you. For a person as smart as you, why can't you see the stupidity and boredom of others! In fact, if you travel all over the world, You can meet people who pretend to be honest everywhere. But only you can be honest. So, do you like that gentleman's sisters too? They don't have his demeanor."

"It does appear so on the surface. But talk to them and you'll find they are very pleasant women too. I'm told that Miss Bingley is going to live with her brother, and do his housework. She It would be weird if it wasn't a good neighbor."

Elizabeth listened to her sister without saying anything, but she was not convinced.Her powers of observation were much keener than her sister's, and her temper was not so good, so when it came to the Bingley sisters, she had only to think of their behavior in the dance hall, and she knew that they were more sophisticated than her. I didn't intend to please the common people.Elizabeth will never change her mind just because others treat her well, so she will not have much affection for the Bingley sisters.

In fact, they are very good ladies; it's not that they can't talk and laugh, the point is whether they are happy;But unfortunately, they are blindly arrogant.They were all handsome, and had been educated at a good junior college; they had twenty thousand pounds, and their spending was always profligate, and they liked to associate with people of status and status, which made them He thinks highly of himself in all aspects and never puts others in his eyes.They were born of respectable families in the north of England, and remembered their parentage well, but they almost forgot that their brother's fortune, as well as their own, had been earned by trade. Not easily accepted by the upper class. .

Mr. Bingley inherited from his father an inheritance of nearly one hundred thousand pounds.His father had planned to purchase land property, but unfortunately things backfired, and he passed away forever.Mr. Bingley had the same intentions, and had at one time intended to acquire land in his own country; but now that he had a fine house, and estates at his disposal, those who knew his character He said that a person like him who goes with the flow will probably spend the rest of his life in Netherfield Manor, and the matter of buying land will be left to the next generation.On the contrary, Mr. Bingley's sisters were anxious for him, hoping that he would purchase the property sooner.Although his present estate was leased, Miss Bingley was more than willing to manage the household for him.And that Mrs. Hurst, whenever she came to visit her brother, it was still as if she were at her own home.Mr. Bingley was not yet two years of age at the time, and he decided to look at the house at Netherfield just because he happened to hear that it was a very nice house at Netherfield.He walked around inside and out for half an hour, and he was quite satisfied with the location of the house and several main rooms. In addition, the landlord praised the house again, and those words hit his heart. So he rented it on the spot.

Although Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy have very different personalities, their friendship is always the same.The reason why Mr. Darcy likes Mr. Bingley is because Mr. Bingley is gentle, honest, frank and straightforward. Although his personality is very different from his own, he never feels that there is any imperfection in his personality. .Mr. Darcy thinks very highly of Mr. Bingley, so that Mr. Bingley has a great deal of confidence in him, and a high opinion of him.In terms of IQ, Mr. Darcy is higher than him...Of course, this does not mean that Mr. Bingley is stupid, but that Mr. Darcy is smarter.Mr. Darcy, though well-educated, is always unpopular because of his arrogance, reserve and critical nature.In this respect, his friends are much better than he is.Mr. Bingley is sure to please people wherever he goes, but Mr. Darcy is always offending.

The difference of character was evident from the manner in which they spoke of the Meryton Ball.Mr. Bingley said that he never met any kinder people in his life, nor any prettier girls.In his opinion, everyone here is extremely kind, extremely attentive, informal, and not cramped. , the surname plus "Miss" is the official title of the eldest lady, and the second lady is called the Christian name, or the Christian name plus the surname.At that time, he couldn't imagine that there would be an angel more beautiful than her in the world.As for Mr. Darcy, he always felt that the people he saw were neither handsome nor elegant, and that none of them interested him, and none of them paid attention to him to win his favor.He admitted that Miss Bennet was pretty, but that she laughed too much.

Although Mrs. Hurst and sisters agreed with him, they still admired her and liked her, saying that she was indeed a lovely sweetheart, and they had no objection to further association with a lady like her.Miss Bennet was such a sweetheart!When their brothers heard this praise, they felt that they could think of her as they liked from now on.

(End of this chapter)