7 INT. ASSEMBLY ROOMS - MERYTON VILLAGE - NIGHT.
The local subscription dance is in full swing, (Dance 1). It's a rough-and-ready, though enthusiastic affair: yeoman farmers, small-time squires with their ruddy-cheeked daughters.
Lydia and Kitty are dancing.
LYDIA: I can't breathe. How am I going to dance all night if I can't breathe? 品德评价
KITTY: My toes hurt already.
Lizzie and Jane are a little apart from their family. Jane looks breathtaking.
LIZZIE: 爱国现代诗Well, if every man in this room does not end the evening in love with you then I am no judge of beauty.五子棋的由来
JANE: Or men.
LIZZIE: Oh, they are far too easy to judge. 儿童小实验
JANE: They are not all bad.
LIZZIE: Humourless poppycocks, in my limited experience.
JANE: One of the days, Lizzie, someone will catch your eye and then you'll have to watch your tongue.
She stops speaking and stares. A dazzling group enters the room: George Charles Bingley (25) a good hearted soul but prone to bumbling embarrassment when his enthusiasms get the better of him, his sister Caroline (23) a victim of every latest fashion, counting herlf superior to most company she encounters, and finally, Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy (27) dashing, brooding with an introversion which could be misconstrued as hauteur. They are dresd in the highest modes.
The music and dancing stops as the local people turn and stare. The newcomers - creatures from another world - make quite a stir. Darcy surveys the hall. He catches Lizzie's eye. She stares, with a kind of surprid shock. Caroline Bingley turns to Darcy.
CAROLINE: Oh dear, we are a long way from Grosvenor Square, are we not, Mr Darcy?
He does indeed look superior to the asmbled company.
SIR WILLIAM LUCAS (53) a hale but unsophisticated member of the lf-made gentry, hurries to greet the new arrivals. He leads them down the center of the dance floor towards the best ats in the room, stopping occasionally to introduce them to various parties.
Lizzie's great friend Charlotte Lucas, Sir Williams’ daughter - an intelligent, nsible woman in her late twenties, comes to Lizzie's side.
LIZZIE: So which of the painted peacocks is our Mr Bingley?
CHARLOTTE: He is on the right, and on the left is his sister.
LIZZIE: And the person with the quizzical brow?
CHARLOTTE: That is his good friend, 'Mr Darcy.
LIZZIE: He looks mirable, poor soul.
CHARLOTTE: Mirable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not.
LIZZIE: Tell me.
CHARLOTTE: Ten thousand a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
LIZZIE: The mirable half?
They share a complicit giggle.
Sir William Lucas arrives with Darcy and the Bingley's to introduce his daughter Charlotte and the Bennet family. Behind them the music and dancing re-start where they left off.
SIR WILLIAM: (to Mr Bingley) My eldest daughter you know, Mrs Bennet, Miss Jane Bennet, Elizabeth and Miss Mary Bennet.
MRS BENNET: 西安市限行It is a pleasure. I have two others but they are already dancing.
Mr Bingley is transfixed by Jane and gazes openly at her.
MR BINGLEY:三算 Delighted to make your acquaintance. 实现自我价值
SIR WILLIAM: And may I introduce Mr Darcy. (Significant look) - of Pemberley, in Derbyshire!
A stiff bow from Darcy, Lizzie smiles, Darcy does not.
8 INT. ASSEMBLY ROOMS - MERYTON VILLAGE - NIGHT.
Moments later. Lizzie is standing in a small group with Jane, Bingley, Miss Bingley and Darcy.
JANE: How do you like it here in Hertfordshire, Mr Bingley?
MR BINGLEY: (smiling at Jane shyly) Very much.
LIZZIE: The library at Netherfield, I've heard, is one of the finest in the country.
MR BINGLEY: Yes, it fills me with guilt.
He looks at Jane and a little blush starts around his collar.
BINGLEY: Not a good reader, you e. I prefer being out of doors. I mean, I can read, of cour and, and I'm not suggesting you can't read outdoors - of cour.
JANE: I wish I read more, but there always ems so many other things to do.
BINGLEY: That's exactly what I meant.
He beams at Jane, gratefully. The first dance ends. Lydia and Kitty rush past in a state of high excitement.
LYDIA: 得意忘形什么意思Mama! You will never ever ever ever believe what I'm about to tell you!
