，最快更新傲慢与偏见最新章节！The two gentlemen left Rosings the next morning, and mr. Collins having beenwaiting near the lodges,make them his parting obeisance, was ablebring home the pleasing intelligence,their appearingvery good health, andas tolerable spiritscouldexpected,after the melancholy scenelately gohrough a Rosingsthen hastened,console Lady Catherine and her daughter; andhis return brought back, with great satisfaction, a message from her ladyship, importing that she felt herselfdullto make her very desiroushaving them alldine with her.
Elizabeth could not see Lady Catherine without recollecting that, had she chosen it, she mightthis time have been presentedherher future niece;nor could she think,withoumile,what her ladyship's indignation would have been.“what would she have said?how would she have behaved?”were questions with which she amused herself.
Their first subject was the diminutionthe Rosings party.“I assure you,I feelexceedingly,”said Lady Catherine;“I believeone feels the lossfriendsmuchI do.But Iparticularly attachedthese young men, and know thembemuch attachedme!They were excessively sorrygo! Butthey alway dear Colonel rallied his spirits tolerably till justlast;but darcy seemedfeelmost acutely,more,I think,than las attachmentRosings certainly increases.”
mr.Collins haompliment,andallusionthrowhere, which were kindly smiledby the mother and daughter.
Lady Catherine observed, after dinner, that missseemed outspirits, and immediately accounting forby herself,supposing that she did not likego home againsoon,she added:
“Butthatthe case,you must writeyour mother and beg that you may staittl willvery gladyour pany,Isure.”
“Imuch obligedyour ladyship for your kind invitation,”replied Elizabeth,“butis notmy poweraccept it.I mustin town next Saturday.”
“why,at that rate,you will have been here onlyyoustaymrs. Collinsbeforecanno occasion for your goinould certainly spare you for another fortnight.”
“Butfathe wrote last weekhurryreturn.”
“oh!your fathercourse may spare you,your mothe are neverso much consequenceyou will stay another month plete,it willinpowertake oneyoufarLondon,for Igoing there earlyJune,foeek;anddawson does not objectthe barouche-box,there willvery good room for oneyou—and indeed,if the weather should happenbe cool,I should not objecttaking you both,as you are neitheryou large.”
“You are all kindness,madam;but I believemust abideour original plan.”
Lady Catherine seemed resigned.“mrs. Collins, you must senervant wit know I always speakmind, and I cannot bear the ideatwo young women travelling post bhighl must contrivesen the greatest dislikethe worldthat soromen should alwaysproperly guarded and attended, accordingtheir situation iniece Geiana wentRamsgate last summer,I madointher having two men-servantswit darcy,the ,of Pemberley,and Lady Anne,could not have appeared with proprietya differen excessively attentiveall thos must send John with the young ladies,mrs. gladoccurredmemention it;forwould reallydiscreditableyoulet themalone.”
“my uncleto senervant for us.”