傲慢与偏见 Pride and Prejudice 2 - Chapter 1 A Young Man of Fortune

　　傲慢与偏见 Pride and Prejudice 2

　　CHAPTER ONE

　　A Young Man of Fortune

　　The Bennet family met together in the drawing room after dinner that evening. Four of Mr. Bennet's daughters were quite pretty. Jane was the most beautiful of them but Elizabeth, who was twenty, had more spirit. Also, Elizabeth's fine dark eyes seemed full of light. Kitty was their seventeen-year-old daughter. She was pretty in a thin way, Lydia was almost sixteen and she was tall with healthy, red-colored cheeks. Nineteen-year old Mary was the only plain member of the family. She was thin, round-shouldered, and near-sighted. Because she read too many hooks, she had to wear glasses.

　　Elizabeth was busy working on a hat when Mr. Bennet said to her: "I hope our new neighbor Mr. Bingley will like it."

　　"And how are we to know whether Mr. Bingley likes it or not," asked her mother, "if we cannot visit him?"

　　"Don't worry, Mama, you forget that we shall see him at the town meeting," Elizabeth said.

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