manners and so extremely accomplished for her age her performance on the is exquisite it is amazing to me said how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are all young ladies accomplished my dear charles what do you mean yes all of them i think they all paint tables cover and net 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 your list of the common extent of accomplishments said has too much truth the word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by a purse or covering a 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 nor i i am sure said miss then observed elizabeth you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman yes i do comprehend a great deal in it oh certainly cried his faithful assistant no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly what is usually met with a woman must have a thorough knowledge of music singing drawing dancing and the modem languages to deserve the word and besides all this she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking the tone of her voice her address and expressions or the word will be but half deserved all this she must possess added and to pride and prejudice all this she must yet add something more substantial in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading i am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women i rather wonder now at your knowing are you so severe upon your own sex as to doubt the possibility of all this never saw such a woman never saw such capacity and taste and application and elegance as you describe united mrs and miss both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt and were both protesting that they knew many women who answered this description when mr called them to order with bitter complaints of their to what was going forward as all conversation was thereby at an end elizabeth soon afterwards left the room said miss when the door was closed on her is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by their own and with many men dare say it but in my opinion it is a paltry device a very mean art undoubtedly replied to whom this remark was chiefly addressed there is meanness in the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for whatever bears to cunning is miss was not so entirely satisfied with this reply as to continue the subject elizabeth joined them again only to say that her sister was worse and that she could not leave her urged mr jones s being sent for immediately while his sisters convinced tliat no country advice could be of any service recommended an express to town for one of the most eminent this pride and prejudice she would not hear of but she was not so unwilling to with their brother s and it was settled that mr jones should be sent for early in the if miss were not decidedly better was quite uncomfortable his sisters declared that they were miserable they their wretchedness however by after supper while he could find no better relief to his feelings than by giving his housekeeper directions that every possible attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister ct ji elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister s room and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from mr by a and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters in spite of this however she requested to have a note sent to desiring her mother to visit jane and form her own judgment of her situation the note was immediately and its contents as quickly complied with mrs accompanied by her two youngest girls reached soon after the family breakfast had she found jane in any apparent danger mrs would have been very miserable but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming she had no wish of her recovering immediately as her restoration to health would probably remove her from she would not listen to her daughter s proposal of being carried home neither did the who arrived about the same time think pride and prejudice t it at all advisable after sitting a little while with jane on miss s appearance and invitation the and three daughters all attended her into the breakfast parlour met them with hopes that mrs had not found miss worse than she expected indeed i have sir was her answer she is a great deal too ill to be moved mr jones says we must not think of moving her we must a little longer on your kindness removed cried it must not be thought of my sister i am sure will not hear of her removal you may depend upon it madam said miss with cold civility that miss shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us mrs was in her i am sure she added if it was not for such good friends i do not know what would become of her for she is very ill indeed and suffers a vast deal though with the greatest patience in the world which is always the way with her for she has without exception the sweetest temper i ever met with i often tell my 