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The Netherfield Dance

Elizabeth: I believe we must have some conversation, Mr. Darcy. A very little will suffice. You should say something about the dance, perhaps. I might remark on the number of couples.

Mr. Darcy: You talk by rule then, when you're dancing?

Elizabeth: Yes, sometimes it is best! Then we may enjoy the advantage of saying as little as possible.

Mr. Darcy: You consult your own feelings in this case, or seek to gratify mine?

Elizabeth: Both, I imagine. We are each of an unsocial taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak unless we are expected to say something that will amaze the whole room.

Mr. Darcy: This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I'm sure. Do you often walk into Meryton?

Elizabeth: Yes, quite often. When you met us the other day we had just been forming a new acquaintance.

Mr. Darcy: Mr. Wickham has the happy manners that enable him to make friends. Whether he is equally able to keep them is less certain.

Elizabeth: He has been unlucky as to lose your friendship in a way he is likely to suffer from his whole life.

Sir William: Allow me to congratulate you, Sir. Such superior dancing is rarely to be seen. I'm sure you'll own your fair partner is well worthy of you. I hope to have this pleasure often repeated, especially when a certain desirable event takes place, Miss Lizzy? What congratulations will then flow in!

Elizabeth: Sir, I-

Sir William: Nay, nay, I understand. I'll not detain you one moment longer from your bewitching partner.

Mr. Darcy: Sir.

Sir William: With pleasure, Sir. Capital, capital!

Elizabeth: I remember hearing you once say that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment, once created, was implacable. You are very careful, are you not, in allowing your resentment to be created?

Mr. Darcy: I am.

Elizabeth: And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?

Mr. Darcy: I hope not. May I ask to what these questions tend?

Elizabeth: Merely to the illustration of your character. I am trying to make it out.

Mr. Darcy: And what is your success?

Elizabeth: I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as to puzzle me exceedingly.

Mr. Darcy: I wish, Miss Bennet, that you would not attempt to sketch my character at the present moment. I fear the performance would reflect no credit on either of us.

Elizabeth: But if I don't take your likeness now, I may never have another opportunity.

Mr. Darcy: I would by no means suspend any pleasure of yours.

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Elizabeth:	I believe we must have some conversation, Mr. Darcy. A very little will suffice. You should say something about the dance, perhaps. I might remark on the number of couples.
Mr. Darcy:	You talk by rule then, when you're dancing?
Elizabeth:	Yes, sometimes it is best! Then we may enjoy the advantage of saying as little as possible.
Mr. Darcy:	You consult your own feelings in this case, or seek to gratify mine?
Elizabeth:	Both, I imagine. We are each of an unsocial taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak unless we are expected to say something that will amaze the whole room.
Mr. Darcy:	This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I'm sure. Do you often walk into Meryton?
Elizabeth:	Yes, quite often. When you met us the other day we had just been forming a new acquaintance.
Mr. Darcy:	Mr. Wickham has the happy manners that enable him to make friends. Whether he is equally able to keep them is less certain.
Elizabeth:	He has been unlucky as to lose your friendship in a way he is likely to suffer from his whole life.
Sir William:	Allow me to congratulate you, Sir. Such superior dancing is rarely to be seen. I'm sure you'll own your fair partner is well worthy of you. I hope to have this pleasure often repeated, especially when a certain desirable event takes place, Miss Lizzy? What congratulations will then flow in!
Elizabeth:	Sir, I-
Sir William:	Nay, nay, I understand. I'll not detain you one moment longer from your bewitching partner.
Mr. Darcy:	Sir.
Sir William:	With pleasure, Sir. Capital, capital!
Elizabeth:	I remember hearing you once say that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment, once created, was implacable. You are very careful, are you not, in allowing your resentment to be created?
Mr. Darcy:	I am.
Elizabeth:	And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?
Mr. Darcy:	I hope not. May I ask to what these questions tend?
Elizabeth:	Merely to the illustration of your character. I am trying to make it out.
Mr. Darcy:	And what is your success?
Elizabeth:	I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as to puzzle me exceedingly.
Mr. Darcy:	I wish, Miss Bennet, that you would not attempt to sketch my character at the present moment. I fear the performance would reflect no credit on either of us.
Elizabeth:	But if I don't take your likeness now, I may never have another opportunity.
Mr. Darcy:	I would by no means suspend any pleasure of yours.