Chapter 08D

‘All this she must possess,’ added Darcy, ‘and to all this she mustyet add something more substantial, in the improvement of hermind by extensive reading.’‘I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.’‘Are you so severe upon your own sex, as to doubt the possibility of all this?’‘I never saw such a woman. I never saw such capacity, and taste，and application, and elegance, as you describe, united.’Mrs Hurst and Miss Bingley both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt, and were both protesting that they knewmany women who answered this description, when Mr. Hurstcalled them to order, with bitter complaints of their inattention to what was going forward. As all conversation was thereby at an end,Elizabeth soon afterwards left the room.