

There are later Mr Darcy, Mr. Bingley and his sister next to Lizzie, Elisabeth, and all them have a conversation about what features should to have a woman.

Mr Darcy: you are mistaken. I write rather slowly.
Caroline: How many letters you must have occasion to write in the course of the year! Letters of business too! How odious I should think them!
Mr Darcy: It is fortunate, then, that they fall to my lot instead of to yours.
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Bingley: It is amazing to me, how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.
Caroline: All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?
Bingley: Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses. I scarcely know any one who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished
Mr Darcy: Your list of the common extent of accomplishments," said Darcy, "has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished.
Lizzie: You must comprehend a great deal in your idea an accomplished woman.
Mr. Darcy: Yes, I do comprehend a great deal in it.
Mr. Darcy: Yes, I do comprehend a great deal in it.
Caroline: no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tome of her voice, her adress and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.
Mr Darcy: All this she must possess.
Lizzie: I'm no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplisehd women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
Mr. Darcy: Are you so severe upon your own sex as to doubt the possibility of all this?
Lizzie: I never saw such a woman. I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe united.
Bingley: (he smiles)
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