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Pride and Prejudice
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“Well,
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all I know is,
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that it will be abominably rude if you do not wait on him.
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But,
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however,
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that shan’t prevent my asking him to dine here,
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I am determined.
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We must have Mrs. Long and the Gouldings soon.
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That will make thirteen with ourselves,
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so there will be just room at table for him.”
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Consoled by this resolution,
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she was the better able to bear her husband’s incivility;
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though it was very mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see Mr. Bingley,
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in consequence of it,
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before they did.
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As the day of his arrival drew near,—
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“I begin to be sorry that he comes at all,”
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said Jane to her sister.
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“It would be nothing;
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I could see him with perfect indifference,
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but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of.
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My mother means well;
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but she does not know,
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no one can know,
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how much I suffer from what she says.
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Happy shall I be,
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when his stay at Netherfield is over!”
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“I wish I could say anything to comfort you,”
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replied Elizabeth;
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“but it is wholly out of my power.
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You must feel it;
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and the usual satisfaction of preaching patience to a sufferer is denied me,
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because you have always so much.”
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Mr. Bingley arrived.
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Mrs. Bennet,
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through the assistance of servants,
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contrived to have the earliest tidings of it,
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that the period of anxiety and fretfulness on her side might be as long as it could.
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She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent;
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hopeless of seeing him before.
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But on the third morning after his arrival in Hertfordshire,
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she saw him,
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from her dressing-room window,
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enter the paddock and ride towards the house.
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Her daughters were eagerly called to partake of her joy.
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Jane resolutely kept her place at the table;
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but Elizabeth,
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to satisfy her mother,
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went to the window—she looked,—
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she saw Mr. Darcy with him,
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and sat down again by her sister.
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“There is a gentleman with him,
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mamma,”
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said Kitty;
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“who can it be?”
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“Some acquaintance or other,
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my dear,
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I suppose;
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I am sure I do not know.”
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“La!”
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replied Kitty,
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“it looks just like that man that used to be with him before.
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Mr. what’s-his-name.
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That tall,
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proud man.”
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“Good gracious!
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Mr. Darcy!—
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and so it does,
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I vow.
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Well,
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any friend of Mr. Bingley’s will always be welcome here,
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to be sure;
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but else I must say that I hate the very sight of him.”
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Jane looked at Elizabeth with surprise and concern.
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She knew but little of their meeting in Derbyshire,
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and therefore felt for the awkwardness which must attend her sister,
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in seeing him almost for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter.
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Both sisters were uncomfortable enough.
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Each felt for the other,
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and of course for themselves;
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and their mother talked on,
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of her dislike of Mr. Darcy,
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and her resolution to be civil to him only as Mr. Bingley’s friend,
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without being heard by either of them.
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But Elizabeth had sources of uneasiness which could not be suspected by Jane,
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to whom she had never yet had courage to shew Mrs. Gardiner’s letter,
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or to relate her own change of sentiment towards him.
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To Jane,
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he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused,
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and whose merit she had undervalued;
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but to her own more extensive information,
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he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits,
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and whom she regarded herself with an interest,
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if not quite so tender,
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at least as reasonable and just as what Jane felt for Bingley.
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Her astonishment at his coming—at his coming to Netherfield,
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to Longbourn,
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and voluntarily seeking her again,
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was almost equal to what she had known on first witnessing his altered behaviour in Derbyshire.
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The colour which had been driven from her face,
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returned for half a minute with an additional glow,
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and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes,
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as she thought for that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken.
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But she would not be secure.
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“Let me first see how he behaves,”
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said she;
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“it will then be early enough for expectation.”
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She sat intently at work,
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striving to be composed,
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and without daring to lift up her eyes,
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till anxious curiosity carried them to the face of her sister as the servant was approaching the door.
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Jane looked a little paler than usual,
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but more sedate than Elizabeth had expected.
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On the gentlemen’s appearing,
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her colour increased;
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yet she received them with tolerable ease,
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and with a propriety of behaviour equally free from any symptom of resentment or any unnecessary complaisance.
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Elizabeth said as little to either as civility would allow,
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and sat down again to her work,
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with an eagerness which it did not often command.
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She had ventured only one glance at Darcy.
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He looked serious,
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as usual;
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and,
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she thought,
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more as he had been used to look in Hertfordshire,
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than as she had seen him at Pemberley.
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But,
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perhaps he could not in her mother’s presence be what he was before her uncle and aunt.
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It was a painful,
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but not an improbable,
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conjecture.
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Bingley,
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she had likewise seen for an instant,
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and in that short period saw him looking both pleased and embarrassed.
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He was received by Mrs. Bennet with a degree of civility which made her two daughters ashamed,
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especially when contrasted with the cold and ceremonious politeness of her curtsey and address to his friend.
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Elizabeth,
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particularly,
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who knew that her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy,
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was hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill applied.
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