，最快更新傲慢与偏见最新章节！darcy, after inquiringher how mr.did, a question which she could not answer without confusion, said scarcel was not seatedher; perhaps that was the reasonhis silence; buthad not beenihad talkedher friends,whencould noow several minutes elapsed without bringing the soundhis voice;and when occasionally,unableresist the impulsecuriosity,she raised her eyeshis face,sheoften found him lookingJaneat herself,and frequentlyno object butthoughtfulness and less anxietyplease, than when they last met,were plainl was disappointed, and angry with herself for being so.
“Could I expecttootherwise!”said she.“Yet why dide?”
She wasno humour for conversation with anyone but himself;andhim she had hardly couragespeak.
She inquired after his sister,but couldno more.
“Ita long time,mr.Bingley,since you went away,”sai
He readily agreedit.
“I beganbe afraid you would never e bac did say you meantquit the place entirelymichaelmas;but, however, I hopeismany changes have happenedthe neighbourhood,since you wen Lucasmarriedonemyyou have heardit;indeed,you must have seeninwasThe Times and The Courier,I know;thoughwas not was only said,'Lately,Gee wickham, Esq.to miss Lydia Be,'without there beinyllable saidher father,the place where she lived, o wasbrother Gardiner's drawingtoo,and I wonder howcamemake suchawkward you see it?”
Bingley replied thatdid, and madedared not lifthe mr. darcy looked, therefore,she could not tell.
“Ita delightful thing,be sure,havaughter well married,”continued her mother,“butthe same time, mr.Bingley,is very hardhave her taken sucay from me. They are gone downNewcastle, a place quite northward,seems,and there they arestay,Inot knowregimentthere; for I suppose you have heardhis leaving the—shire, andhis being gone intoHeaven!he has some friends,though perhaps notmanyhe deserves.”
Elizabeth, who knew thisbe levelledmr. darcy, wassuch miseryshame,that she could hardly keepdrew from her,however,the exertionspeaking,which nothing else hadeffectually done before;and she asked Bingley whethermeantmake any staythe countreeks,he believed.
“when you have killed all your own birds, mr. Bingley,”said her mother,“I beg you will e here,and shootmanyyou ' surewillvastly happyoblige you,and will save all the bestthe coveys for you.”
Elizabeth's misery increased,at such unnecessary,such officious attention!were the same fair prospectarisepresenthad flattered theear ago,every thing,she was persuaded,wouldhasteningthe same vexatiou that instant, she felt that yearshappiness could not make Janeherself amends for momentssuch painful confusion.
“The first wishmy heart,”said sheherself,“is never morebepany with eitheociety can affordpleasure that will atone for such wretchednessthis!Letnever see either onethe other again!”
Yet the misery, for which yearshappiness wereofferpensation, received soon afterwards material relief, from observing how much the beautyher sister re-kindled the admirationher forme firstcame in,had spokenher but little; but every five minutes seemedbe giving her morehi found herhandsomeshe had been last year;as good natured,andunaffected,though not quitas anxious thatdifference shouldperceivedherall,and was really persuaded that she talkedmucer mind wasbusily engaged,that she did not always know when she was silent.
when the gentlemen rosego away,mrs.Be was mindfulher intended civility,and they were invited and engageddineLongbourna few days time.
“You are quitisitmy debt,mr.Bingley,”she added,“for when you wenttown last winter,you promisedtakamily dinner with us,soonyo not fot, you see;and I assure you,I was very much disappointed that you did not e back and keep your engagement.”
Bingley lookeittle sillythis reflection,and said somethinghis concernhaving been preventehen went away.
mrs.had been strongly inclinedask themstay and dihere that day;but,though she always kepery good table,she did not think anything less than two courses couldgood enough foanwhom she had such anxious designs,or satisfy the appetite and prideone who had ten thousanear.