，最快更新傲慢与偏见最新章节！mr.wickham wasperfectly satisfied with this conversation thatnever again distressed himself,or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth,by introducing the subjectit;and she was pleasedfind that she had said enoughkeep him quiet.
The dayhis and Lydia's departure soon came,an was forcedsubmita separation,which,as her husbandno means entered into her schemetheir all goingNewcastle,was likelycontinueleaswelvemonth.
“oh!my dear Lydia,”she cried,“when shallmeet again?”
“oh,lord!I don' these twothree years,perhaps.”
“writeme very often,my dear.”
“As often you know married women have never much timesisters may will have nothing elsedo.”
mr.wickham's adieus were much more affectionate than his wife's.He smiled,looked handsome,and said many pretty things.
“Heas finellow,”said mr.Be,as soonthey were outthe house,“as ever simpers, and smirks, and makes loveu prodigiously prouven Sir william Lucas himselfproducore valuable son-in-law.”
The lossher daughter mad very dull for several days.
“I often think,”said she,“that therenothingbadparting with one' seemsforlorn without them.”
“Thisthe consequence, you see, madam,marryinaughter,”said Elizabeth.“It must make you better satisfied that your other four are single.”
“Itno suc does not leavebecause shemarried,but only because her husband's regiment happensbefa that had been nearer, she would not have gonesoon.”
But the spiritless condition which this event threw her into was shortly relieved, and her mind opened againthe agitationhope,byarticlenews which then beganbousekeeper atherfield had received ordersprepare for the arrivalher master,who was ing downa daytwo,to shoot there for severa was quiteth lookedJane,and smiled and shook her headturns.
“well,well, down,sister,”(fo first brought her the news).“well,muchthat I care about it,nothingus,you know, and Isure I never wantsee hi, however,is very welee toherfield,iflikes it.And who knows what may happen? But know, sister,we agreed long ago nevermentioord about it.And so,isquite certainis ing?”
“You may dependit,”replied the other,“fo wasmeryton last night; I saw her passing by, and went out myselfpurposeknow the truthit;and she toldthatwas certaidownThursdaythe latest,very likelas goingthe butcher's,she told me,purposeordersome meatwednesday,and she has got three coupleducks just fitbe killed.”
misshad not been ablehearhis ing without changin was many months since she had mentioned his nameElizabeth;but now,as soonthey were aloogether, she said:
“I saw you lookme to-day, Lizzy, whenaunt toldof the present report;and I know I appeare don't imaginewas from any sill only confused for the moment,because I felt that I shouldlooked at.Iassure you that the news does not affecteither with pleasurladohing,thates alone;becauseshall see the leshat Iafraidmyself,but I dread other people's remarks.”
Elizabeth did not know she not seen himderbyshire, she might have supposed him capableing there withother view than what was acknowledged;but she still thought him partialJane, and she waveredto the greater probabilityhis ing there with his friend's permission,or being bold enoughe without it.
“Yetis hard,”she sometimes thought,“that this poor man cannothouse whichhas legally hired,without raising all this speculation!I will leave himhimself.”
In spitewhat her sister declared,and really believedbe her feelingsthe expectationhis arrival, Elizabeth could easily perceive that her spirits were were more disturbed,more unequal,than she had often seen them.
The subject which had beenwarmly canvassed between their parents, abouwelvemonth ago, was now brought forward again.
“As soonever mr.Bingley es,my dear,”sai,“you will waithimcourse.”
“No,no.You forcedinto visiting him last year,and promised,I wentsee him,he should marry onemendednothing,and I will notsenta fool's errand again.”
His wife representedhim how absolutely necessary suchattention wouldfrom all the neighbouring gentlemen,on his returning toherfield.
“'Tis aiquette I despise,”said he.“Ifwants our society,let him seek it.He knows wherot spendhoursrunning afterneighbours every time theyaway and e back again.'”
“well,all I know is,thatwillabominably rudeyounot wait o,however,that shan't preventasking himdine here,I a must hav and the Goulding will make thirteen with ourselves,so there willjust roomtable for him.”
Consoledthis resolution,she was the better ablebear her husband's incivility;thoughwas very mortifyingknow that her neighbours might all see mr. Bingley,consequenceit, before the the dayhis arrival drew near: