标题: 【名 著】2011.9.24-Pride and Prejudice（11） [打印本页] 作者: blueskywhy 时间: 2011-9-24 16:11 标题: 【名 著】2011.9.24-Pride and Prejudice（11）
“If he had had any compassion for me,'' cried her husband impatiently, ”he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of his partners. Oh! that he had sprained his ancle in the first dance!''
“Oh! my dear,'' continued Mrs. Bennet, ”I am quite delighted with him. He is so excessively handsome! and his sisters are charming women. I never in my life saw any thing more elegant than their dresses. I dare say the lace upon Mrs. Hurst's gown --''Here she was interrupted again.
Mr. Bennet protested against any description of finery. She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration, the shocking rudeness of Mr. Darcy.
“But I can assure you,'' she added, ”that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him! He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set downs. I quite detest the man.''
