The sisters, on hearing this, repeated three or four times how much they were grieved, how shocking it was to have a bad cold, and how excessively they disliked being ill themselves; and then thought no more of the matter.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 8. When Elizabeth tells the Bingley sisters how ill Jane is, we are told with the use of beautiful irony how brief and insincere their sympathy for Jane is: they are "grieved," and then they "thought no more of the matter."