1、 PRIDE AND PREJUDICEJane Bennet: Lydia! Kitty! Mrs Bennet: My dear Mr Bennet, have you heard? Netherfield Park is letat last. Do you not want to know who has taken it? Mr Bennet: As you wish to tell me, my dear, I doubt I have any choice inthe matter. Elizabeth Bennet: Kitty, what have I told you ab
2、out listening at the door? Lydia Bennet: Theres a Mr Bingley arrived from the North. Kitty Bennet: Five thousand a year! Elizabeth Bennet: Really? Lydia Bennet: Hes single! Jane Bennet: Whos single? Elizabeth Bennet: A Mr Bingley, apparently. Kitty! Mr Bennet: How can that possibly affect them? Mrs
3、Bennet: Mr Bennet, how can you be so tiresome? You know he must marry one of them. Mr Bennet: That is his design in settling here? Mr Bennet: Good heavens. People. Mrs Bennet: So you must go and visit him at once. Mrs Bennet: For we may not visit if you do not, as you well know, Mr Bennet. Are you l
4、istening? You never listen. Lydia Bennet: You must, Papa! Mrs Bennet: At once! Mr Bennet: Theres no need. I already have. Mrs Bennet: You have? When? Oh, Mr Bennet, how can you tease me so? Have you no compassion for my poor nerves? Mr Bennet: You mistake me, my dear. I have the highest respect for
5、them. Theyve been my constant companions these twenty years. Kitty Bennet: Papa! Mrs Bennet: Is he amiable? Mary Bennet: Who? Kitty Bennet: Is he handsome? Lydia Bennet: Hes sure to be handsome. Elizabeth Bennet: With 5,000 a year, it would not matter if he had warts. Mary Bennet: Whos got warts? Mr
6、 Bennet: I will consent to his marrying whichever girl he chooses. Lydia Bennet: So will he come to the ball tomorrow? Mr Bennet: I believe so. Mrs Bennet: Mr Bennet!Lydia Bennet: I have to have your muslin! Kitty Bennet: Ill lend you my green slippers! Jane Bennet: They were mine. Lydia Bennet: Ill
7、 do your mending for a week. Kitty Bennet: Ill retrim your new bonnet. Lydia Bennet: Two weeks Ill do it for. Kitty Bennet: Its not the same! Lydia Bennet: I cant breathe. Kitty Bennet: I think one of my toes just came off. Elizabeth Bennet: If every man in this room does not end the evening inlove
8、with you, then Im no judge of beauty. Jane Bennet: Or men. Elizabeth Bennet: No, they are far too easy to judge. Jane Bennet: Theyre not all bad. Elizabeth Bennet: Humourless poppycocks, in my limited experience. Jane Bennet: One of these day, Lizzie, someone will catch your eye and then youll have
9、to watch your tongue. Mr Lucas: How good of you to come. Elizabeth Bennet: Which of the painted peacocks is our Mr Bingley? Miss Lucas: Hes on the right. On the left is his sister. Elizabeth Bennet: The person with the quizzical brow? Miss Lucas: That is his good friend, Mr Darcy. Elizabeth Bennet:
10、He looks miserable, poor soul. Miss Lucas: Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. Elizabeth Bennet: Tell me. Miss Lucas: 10,000 a year and he owns half of Derbyshire. Elizabeth Bennet: The miserable half. Mrs Bennet: Mr Bennet, you must introduce him to the girls immediately. Elizab
11、eth Bennet: Smile at Mr Bingley. Smile. Mrs Bennet: Mary. Mr Lucas: Mr Bingley, my eldest daughter you know. Mrs Bennet, Miss Jane Bennet, Elizabeth and Miss Mary Bennet. Mrs Bennet: It is a pleasure. I have two others, but theyre already dancing. Mr Bingley: Delighted to make your acquaintance. Mr
12、Lucas: And may I introduce Mr Darcy of Pemberley in Derbyshire.Jane Bennet: How do you like it here in Hertfordshire? Mr Bingley: Very much. Elizabeth Bennet: The library at Netherfield, Ive heard, is one of the finest in the country. Mr Bingley: Yes, it fills me with guilt. Im not a good reader. I
13、prefer being out of doors. Oh, I mean, I can read, of course. And Im not suggesting you cant read out of doors, of course. Jane Bennet: I wish I read more, but there always seems to be so many other things to do. Mr Bingley: Thats exactly what I meant. Lydia Bennet: Mama, Mama! You will never, ever
14、believe what were about to tell you. Mrs Bennet: Tell me quickly, my love. Mr Bennet: Shes going to take the veil. Lydia Bennet: The regiment are coming! Mrs Bennet: Officers? Kitty Bennet: Theyre going to be stationed the whole winter, right here. Mrs Bennet: Officers? Lydia Bennet: As far as the e
15、ye can see. Mrs Bennet: Oh, look. Janes dancing with Mr Bingley. Mr Bennet. Elizabeth Bennet: Do you dance, Mr Darcy? Mr Darcy: Not if I can help it. Miss Lucas: I didnt know you were coming to see me. Whats the matter? Miss Bingley: We are a long way from Grosvenor Square, are we not, Mr Darcy? Mr
16、Bingley: Ive never seen so many pretty girls in my life. Mr Darcy: You were dancing with the only handsome girl in the room. Mr Bingley: She is the most beautiful creature I have ever beheld. But her sister Elizabeth is very agreeable. Mr Darcy: Perfectly tolerable,I dare say, but not handsome enoug
17、h to tempt me. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles. Foryoure wasting your time with me.Miss Lucas: Count your blessings, Lizzie. If he liked you, youd have to talk to him. Elizabeth Bennet: Precisely. I wouldnt dance with him for all of Derbyshire, let alone the miserable half
18、. Mr Bennet: Wait! Mr Bingley: I enjoyed that so much, Miss Lucas. Mrs Bennet: How well you dance, Mr Bingley. Mr Bingley: Ive never enjoyed a dance so much. Mrs Bennet: My daughter Jane is a splendid dancer, is she not? Mr Bingley: She is indeed. Your friend Miss Lucas is a most amusing young woman
19、. Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, yes, I adore her. Mrs Bennet: It is a pity shes not more handsome. Elizabeth Bennet: Mama! Mrs Bennet: Oh, but Lizzie would never admit that shes plain. Of course, its my Jane whos considered the beauty of the county. Elizabeth Bennet: Mama, please! Mrs Bennet: When she was 1
20、5, a gentleman was so much in love with her, I was sure he would make her an offer. However, he did write her some very pretty verses. Elizabeth Bennet: And that put paid to it. I wonder who first discovered the power of poetry in driving away love. Mr Darcy: I thought poetry was the food of love. E
21、lizabeth Bennet: Of a fine, stout love it may. But if it is only a vague inclination, I am convinced that one poor sonnet will kill it. Mr Darcy: So, what do you recommend, to encourage affection?Elizabeth Bennet: Dancing. Even if ones partner is barely tolerable. Jane Bennet: Mr Bingley is just wha
22、t a young man ought to be. Sensible,good humoured. Elizabeth Bennet: Handsome, conveniently rich. Jane Bennet: You knoe perfectly well I do not believe marriage should be driven by thoughts of money. Elizabeth Bennet: I agree entirely, only the deepest love will persuademe into matrimony, which is w
23、hy Ill end up an old maid. Jane Bennet: Do you really believe he liked me, Lizzy? Elizabeth Bennet: Jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you for the rest of it. But I give you leave to like him. Youve liked many stupider person. Youre a great deal too apt to like people in genera
24、l, you know. All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes. Jane Bennet: Not his friend. I still cant believe what he said about you. Elizabeth Bennet: Mr Darcy? Id more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine. But no matter. I doubt we shall ever speak again.Mrs Bennet: and then he dan
25、ced the third with Miss Lucas.Mr Bennet: We were all there, dear. Mrs Bennet: Poor thing, it is a shame shes not more handsome. Theres a spinster in the making and no mistake. The fourth with a Miss King oflittle standing, and the fifth again with Jane. Mr Bennet: If he had any compassion for me, he
26、 wouldve sprained his ankle in the first set. Mrs Bennet: Oh, Mr Bennet! The way you carry on, anybody woulg think our girls look forward to a grand inheritance. When you die, which may be very soon, they will be left without a roof over their head nor a penny to their name. Elizabeth Bennet: Please
27、, its ten in the morning. Betsy: A letter to Miss Bennet, maam. From Netherfield Hall.Mrs Bennet: Praise the Lord. We are saved! Make haste, Jane, make haste. Oh, happy day! Jane Bennet: It is from Caroline Bingley. She has invited me to dine with her. Her brother will be dining out. Mrs Bennet: Din
28、ing out? Jane Bennet: Can I take the carriage? Mrs Bennet: Let me see. Jane Bennet: It is too far to walk. Mrs Bennet: This is unaccountable of him. Elizabeth Bennet: Mama, the carriage for Jane? Mrs Bennet: Certainly not. Shell go on horseback. Elizabeth Bennet: Horseback! Mr Bennet: Lizzie. Mrs Be
29、nnet: Now shell have to stay the night, exactly as I predicted. Mr Bennet: Good grief, woman, your skills in the art of matchmaking are positively occult. Elizabeth Bennet: Though I dont think, Mama, you can take credit for making it rain. Elizabeth Bennet: “My friends will not hear of me returning
30、home until I am better. Excepting a sore throat, a fever and a headache, nothing iswrong with me.“ Its ridiculous. Mr Bennet: If Jane does die it will be a comfort to know it was in pursuit of Mr Bingley. Mrs Bennet: People do not die of colds. Elizabeth Bennet: But she may perish with the shame of
31、having such a mother. I must go to Netherfield at once. Miss Binley: Lady Bathurst is redecorating her ballroom in the French style. A little unpatriotic, dont you think? Servant: Miss Elizabeth Bennet. Miss Bingley: Good Lord, did you walk here? Elizabeth Bennet: I did. Im so sorry. How is my siste
32、r? Mr Darcy: Shes upstairs. Elizabeth Bennet: Thank you. Miss Bingley: My goodness,did you see her hem? Six inches deep in mud.She looked positively mediaeval. Jane Bennet: I feel such a terrible imposition. Theyre being so kind to me. Elizabeth Bennet: I dont know who is more pleased at your being
33、here, Mama or Mr Bingley. Elizabeth Bennet: Thank you for tending to my sister so diligently. Shes in far better comfort than at home. Mr Bingley: Its a pleasure. I mean, its not a pleasure that shes ill. Of course not. Its a pleasure that shes here, being ill.Mr Bennet: Not going to be famous, our
34、pig. Black on the back, but not related to the learned pig of Norwich. Now that pig is. Mrs Bennet: Mr Bennet. Its all going to plan. Hes half in love with her already. Mr Bennet: Who is, blossom? Mrs Bennet: Mr Bingley. He doesnt mind that she hasnt a penny. He has more than enough for the two of t
35、hem. Kitty Bennet: How will we meet them? Lydia Bennet: Easy! Wait for me! You drop something. They pick it up. And then youre introduced. Lydia Bennet: Officers! Miss Bingley: You write uncommonly fast, Mr Darcy. Mr Darcy: Youre mistaken. I write slowly. Miss Bingley: How many letters you must have
36、 occasion to write, Mr Darcy. Letters of business. How odious I should think them. Mr Darcy: It is fortunate, then, they fall to me and not you. Miss Bingley: Tell your sister I long to see her. Mr Darcy: Ive already told her once. Miss Bingley: I do dote on her. I was quite in raptures at her beaut
37、iful design for a table. Mr Darcy: Perhaps you will give me leave to defer your raptures. I havenot room enough to do them justice. Mr Bingley: You young ladies are so accomplished. Miss Bingley: What do you mean, Charles? Mr Bingley: You paint tables, play the piano and embroider cushions. I never
38、heard of a lady, but people say shes accomplished. Mr Darcy: The word is applied too liberally. I do not know more than half a dozen women that are truly accomplished.Miss Bingley: Nor I. Elizabeth Bennet: Goodness, you must comprehend a great deal in the idea. Mr Darcy: I do. Miss Bingley: Absolute
39、ly. She must have a knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages to deserve the word. And something in her air and manner of walking. Mr Darcy: And she must improve her mind by extensive reading. Elizabeth Bennet: Im no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished
40、 women. I wonder at you knowing any. Mr Darcy: Are you so severe on your own sex? Elizabeth Bennet: I never saw such a woman. She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold. Miss Bingley: Miss Elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room. Its refreshing, is it not, after sitting so long in one at
41、titude? Elizabeth Bennet: It is a small kind of accomplishment, I suppose. Miss Bingley: Will you not join us, Mr Darcy? Mr Darcy: You can only have two motives, and I would interfere with either. Miss Bingley: What can he mean? Elizabeth Bennet: The surest way to disappoint him would be to ask himn
42、othing. Miss Bingley: Do tell us, Mr Darcy. Mr Darcy: Either you are in each others confidence and you have secret affairs to discuss, or you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage by walking. If the first, I should get in your way. If the second, I can admire you much bett
43、er from here. Miss Bingley: How shall we punish him for such a speech? Elizabeth Bennet: We could laugh at him. Miss Bingley: No. Mr Darcy is not to be teased. Elizabeth Bennet: Are you too proud, Mr Darcy? And would you considerpride a fault or a virtue? Mr Darcy: I couldnt say. Elizabeth Bennet: W
44、ere trying to find a fault in you. Mr Darcy: I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offences against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever. Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, dear. I cannot tease you about that. What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh. Miss Bingley: A fami
45、ly trait, I think.Servant: A Mrs Bennet, a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet and a Miss Bennet, sir. Miss Bingley: Are we to receive every Bennet in the country?Mrs Bennet: What an excellent room you have, sir. Such expensive furnishings. I do hope you intend to stay here, Mr Bingley. Mr Bingley: Absolutel
46、y, I find the country very diverting. Dont you agree, Darcy? Mr Darcy: I find it perfectly adequate. Even if society is a little less varied than in town. Mrs Bennet: Less varied? Not at all. We dine with four and 20 families of all shapes and sizes. Sir William Lucas, for instance, is a very agreea
47、ble man. And a good deal less self-important than some people half hisrank. Lydia Bennet: Mr Bingley, is it true you will hold a ball here? Mr Bingley: A ball? Lydia Bennet: It would be an excellent way to meet new friends. You could invite the militia. Kitty Bennet: Oh, do hold a ball! Elizabeth Be
48、nnet: Kitty! Mr Bingley: When your sister recovers, you shall name the day. Mary Bennet: I think a ball is an irrational way to gain new acquaintance. It would be better if conversation, not dancing, were the order of the day. Miss Bingley: Indeed, much more rational, but rather less like a ball. El
49、izabeth Bennet: Thank you, Mary. Mrs Bennet: What a fine imposing place to be sure, is it not, my dears? Theres no house to equal it in the county. Jane Bennet: Mr Darcy. Mr Darcy: Miss Bennet. Mrs Bennet: There she is. Jane Bennet: I dont know how to thank you. Mr Bingley: Youre welcome any time you feel the least bit poorly. Elizabeth Bennet: Thank you for your stimulating company. Most instructive. Miss Bingley: Not at all. The pleasure is all mine. Miss Bingley: Mr Darcy. Mr Darcy: Miss Elizabeth. L
