Pride and Prejudice Chapter 16

To the girls, who had nothing to do but wish for an instrument, and examine their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantlepiece, the interval appeared very long. It was over at last, however. The gentlemen did approach: and when Mr. Wickham walked into the room, Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration. In Chapter 16 of Jane Austen’s masterpiece Pride and Prejudice, the ladies are inspecting the china on the mantelpiece when the gentlemen finally arrive. Elizabeth is captivated by Mr. Wickham. This image, drawn by Hugh Thompson, is a representation of that scene. Show off your Janeite devotion.