"Pride and Prejudice"
by Jane Austen

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     "Oh! yes. Do let the portraits of your uncle and aunt Phillips be placed in the gallery at Pemberley. Put them next to your great-uncle the judge. They are in the same profession, you know, only in different lines. As for your Elizabeth's picture, you must not have it taken, for what painter could do justice to those beautiful eyes?"

     "It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied."

     At that moment they were met from another walk by Mrs. Hurst and Elizabeth herself.

 

     "I did not know that you intended to walk," said Miss Bingley, in some confusion, lest they had been overheard.

     "You used us abominably ill," answered Mrs. Hurst, "running away without telling us that you were coming out."

     Then taking the disengaged arm of Mr. Darcy, she left Elizabeth to walk by herself. The path just admitted three. Mr. Darcy felt their rudeness, and immediately said:

     "This walk is not wide enough for our party. We had better go into the avenue."

 
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