[Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookPride and Prejudice Chapter 60 10/10
If he did shrug his shoulders, it was not till Sir William was out of sight. Mrs.Phillips's vulgarity was another, and perhaps a greater, tax on his forbearance; and though Mrs.Phillips, as well as her sister, stood in too much awe of him to speak with the familiarity which Bingley's good humour encouraged, yet, whenever she _did_ speak, she must be vulgar. Nor was her respect for him, though it made her more quiet, at all likely to make her more elegant.
Elizabeth did all she could to shield him from the frequent notice of either, and was ever anxious to keep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might converse without mortification; and though the uncomfortable feelings arising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its pleasure, it added to the hope of the future; and she looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either, to all the comfort and elegance of their family party at Pemberley..
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