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“ I do not believe a word of it , my dear . If he had been so very agreeable , he would have talked to Mrs . Long . But I can guess how it was ; everybody says that he is eat up with pride , and I dare say he had heard somehow that Mrs . Long does not keep a carriage , and had to come to the ball in a hack chaise . ” “ I do not mind his not talking to Mrs . Long , ” said Miss Lucas , “ but I wish he had danced with Eliza . ” “ Another time , Lizzy , ” said her mother , “ I would not dance with him , if I were you . ” “ I believe , ma’am , I may safely promise you never to dance with him . ” “ His pride , ” said Miss Lucas , “ does not offend me so much as pride often does , because there is an excuse for it . One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man , with family , fortune , everything in his favour , should think highly of himself . If I may so express it , he has a right to be proud . ” “ That is very true , ” replied Elizabeth , “ and I could easily forgive his pride , if he had not mortified mine . ” “ Pride , ” observed Mary , who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections , “ is a very common failing , I believe . By all that I have ever read , I am convinced that it is very common indeed ; that human nature is particularly prone to it , and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self - complacency on the score of some quality or other , real or imaginary . Vanity and pride are different things , though the words are often used synonymously . A person may be proud without being vain . Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves ; vanity to what we would have others think of us . ” “ If I were as rich as Mr . Darcy , ” cried a young Lucas , who came with his sisters , “ I should not care how proud I was . I would keep a pack of foxhounds , and drink a bottle of wine every day . ” “ Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought , ” said Mrs . Bennet ; “ and if I were to see you at it , I should take away your bottle directly . ” The boy protested that she should not ; she continued to declare that she would ; and the argument ended only with the visit . CHAPTER VI . THE ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield . The visit was returned in due form . Miss Bennet’s pleasing manners grew on the good - will of Mrs . Hurst and Miss Bingley ; and though the mother was found to be intolerable , and the younger sisters not worth speaking to , a wish of being better acquainted with them was expressed towards the two eldest . By Jane this attention was received with the greatest pleasure ; but Elizabeth still saw superciliousness in their treatment of everybody , hardly excepting even her sister , and could not like them ; though their kindness to Jane , such as it was , had a value , as arising , in all probability , from the influence of their brother’s admiration .
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