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Not how I read that passage Written by CarolTS (4/14/2010 3:30 a.m.) in consequence of the missive, Hoping for disappointment, penned by Robbin

I've always read that passage that he's hoping Bingley will not be as pleasant as Mrs. Bennet hopes so that he doesn't have to hear about her planning to marry him off to one of the girls the whole time he's in the area. He knows that the girls don't have a decent dowry and I think he probably feels it's fairly unrealistic to expect Bingley to offer for one of them, even though they are the daughters of a gentleman. He knows what their connections are after all. But I doubt he'd have any luck convincing Mrs. Bennet of any of these truths - she's fairly impervious to truth when she wants something.

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How idiotic can one woman be? Kathleen Glancy (4/12/2010 1:26 p.m.)

And her reaction to Miss Bingley's letter is LOL Elbè (4/13/2010 9:24 a.m.)
Come, come! Merrie B. (4/12/2010 3:24 p.m.)
She latches on to what she does understand kathleen (elder) (4/12/2010 2:01 p.m.)
- Yes, she is silly, but remember that it is now her primary AnnetteJ (4/12/2010 2:32 p.m.)
  - I think Mrs. Bennet is silly period Nancy Ann (4/12/2010 3:17 p.m.)
    - Yes, she is, but that's... Kathi (4/13/2010 6:55 p.m.)
      - this has been brought out Karen G (4/14/2010 10:09 a.m.)
      - Irony for sure! Nancy Ann (4/13/2010 8:43 p.m.)
    - I agree - JA's description of Mr. and Mrs. B. (Ch. 1) Karen G (4/12/2010 4:34 p.m.)
      - he had a good deal of curiosity as to the event of an evening   Stephanie (4/12/2010 9:20 p.m.)
        
        Hoping for disappointment   Robbin (4/14/2010 2:37 a.m.)
        
        Not how I read that passage   CarolTS (4/14/2010 3:30 a.m.)
        
        Such amiable qualities must speak for themselves   Robbin (4/15/2010 1:09 a.m.)
        
        But as Stephanie said at the outset   Kathleen Glancy (4/14/2010 11:33 a.m.)
        
        I Agree   Lenora (4/14/2010 9:33 a.m.)
        
        That's more how I always read it   Nancy Ann (4/14/2010 8:33 a.m.)
        
        Mr Bennet might have been hoping   Kathleen Glancy (4/13/2010 2:08 p.m.)
      - Ah, but for me, too, Nancy Ann (4/12/2010 5:13 p.m.)
  - Her attention is easily diverted... Anne-Marie (4/12/2010 3:08 p.m.)

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