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 goodwill 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.
It was generally evident, whenever they met, that he did admire her;