，最快更新傲慢与偏见最新章节！After the first fortnightthree weeksher absence,health, good humour,and cheerfulness beganreappeaorappie families who had beentown for the winter came back again,and summer finery and summer engagement was restoredher usual querulous serenity;and,by the middleJune,Kitty wasmuch recoveredtoableenter meryton without tears;an eventsuch happy promiseto make Elizabeth hope thatthe following Christmas she mightso tolerably reasonablenotmentionofficer above oncay,unless,by some cruel and malicious arrangementthe war office,another regiment shouldquarteredmeryton.
The time fixed for the beginningtheir northern tour was now fast approaching, anortnight only was wantingit, wheetter arrived fro,whichonce delayed its mencement and curtailedwouldpreventedbusiness from setting out tilortnight laterJuly,and mustin London again withionth,andthat left too shoreriod for themgofar,and seemuchthey had proposed,orleastseewith the leisure and fort they had built on, they were obligedgivethe Lakes, and substitutore contracted tour,and,accordingthe present plan,weregofarther northwards tha that county there was enoughbe seenoccupy the chieftheir three weeks; and thaeculiarly stron town where she had formerly passed some yearsher life, and where they were nowspenew days, was probablygreatobjecther curiosityall the celebrated beautiesmatlock,Chatsworth,dovedale,or the Peak.
Elizabeth was excessively disappointed; she had set her heartseeing the Lakes,and still thought there might have been timwas her businessbe satisfied—and certainly her temperbe happy;and all was soon right again.
with the mentionderbyshire there were many idea was impossible for hersee the word without thinkingPemberley and its owner.“But surely,”said she,“I may enter his county without impunity,and roboew petrified spars without his perceiving me.”
The periodexpectation wasweeks werepass away before her uncle and aunt' they did pass away,and mr.an,with their four children,didlength appeahildren, two girlssix and eight years old, and two younger boys, werebe left under the particular caretheir cousin Jane, who was the general favourite, and whose steady sense and sweetnesstemper exactly adapted her for attendingthemevery way—teaching them,playing with them,and loving them.
The Gardiners stayed only one nightLongbourn, and set off the next morning with Elizabethpursuitnoveltyenjoyment was certain—thatsuitablenesspanions; a suitableness which prehended health and temperbear inconveniences—cheerfulnessenhance every pleasure—and affection and intelligence, which might supplyamong themselvesthere were disappointments abroad.
Itnot the objectthis workgiveionderbyshire, noranythe remarkable places through which their route thither lay;oxford,Blenheim,warwick,Kenilworth,Birmingham, etc. are sufficientl partderbyshireall the presen the little townLambton, the scene o's former residence, and where she had lately learned some acquaintance still remained,they bent their steps, after having seen all the principal wondersthe country; and within five milesLambton, Elizabeth found from her aunt that Pemberleywas nottheir direct road,nor more thailetwo talking over their route the evening before,mrs.Gardiner expressedinclinationsee the plac declared his willingness,and Elizabeth was appliedfor her approbation.
“my love,should not you likeselacewhich you have heardmuch?”said her aunt;“a place,too,with whichmanyyour acquaintancespassed all his youth there,you know.”
Elizabethfelt that she hadbusinessPemberley,and was obligedassumisinclination for seeing it.She must own that she was tiredseeing great houses;after going overmany,she really hadpleasurefine carpetssatin curtains.
mrs. Gardiner abused her stupidity.“Ifwere mereline house richly furnished,”said she,“I should not care aboutmyself; but the groundshave somethe finest woodsthe country.”
Elizabeth saidmore—but her mind couldpossibilitymeeting mr. darcy, while viewing the place, instantl woulddreadful!She blushedthe very idea,and thoughtwouldbetterspeak openlyher aunt thanrun such against this there were objections;and she finally resolved thatcouldthe last resource,if her private inquiriesthe absencethe family were unfavourably answered.
Accordingly,when she retirednight,she asked the chambermaid whether Pemberley were noery fine place,what was the nameits proprietor,and,withlittle alarm,whether the family were down for the summer?A most wele negative followed the last question—and her alarms now being removed, she wasleisurefeereat dealcuriositysee the house herself;and when the subject was revived the next morning,and she was again applied to, could readily answer, and witroper airindifference,that she had not really any dislikethe scheme.
To Pemberley,therefore,they werego.