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    She perfectly remembered everything that had passed in versatioween Wickham and herself,in their first evening at Mr.Phillips's.Many of his expressions were still fresh in her memory. She was now struck with the impropriety of suications to a stranger, and wo had escaped her before. She saw the indelicacy of putting himself forward as he had done,and the insistency of his professions with his duct.She remembered that he had boasted of having no fear of seeing Mr.Darcy—that Mr.Darcy might leave the try,but that he should stand his grou he had avoided the herfield ball the very  week. She remembered also that,till the herfield family had quitted the try,he had told his story to no o herself;but that after their removal it had been everywhere discussed;that he had then no reserves, no scruples in sinking Mr. Darcy's character, though he had assured her that respect for the father would alrevent his exposing the son.

    How differently did everything noear in which he was ed!His attentions to Miss King were now the sequence of views solely and hatefully merary;and the mediocrity of her fortune proved no lohe moderation of his wishes, but his eagero grasp at anything. His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive;he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encing the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shown. Every lingering struggle in his favrew fainter and fainter; and in farther justification of Mr. Darcy, she could not but allow that Mr. Bingley, wheioned by Jane, had long ago asserted his melessness in the affair; that proud and repulsive as were his manners, she had never, in the whole course of their acquaintan acquaintance which hadtterly brought them much together, and given her a sort of intimacy with his ways—seen anything that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust—anything that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits;that among his own es he was esteemed and valued—that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a brother,and that she had often heard him speak so affeately of his sister as to prove him capable of some amiable feeling;that had his as been what Mr.Wickham represehem, so gross a vition of everything right could hardly have been cealed from the world;and that friendship between a person capable of it, and su amiable man as Mr. Bingley, rehensible.

    She grew absolutely ashamed of herself.Of her Daror Wickham could she think without feeling she had been blind, partial,prejudiced,absurd.

    “How despicably I have acted!”she cried;“I,who have prided myself on my disment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities!who have often disdaihe generous dour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or meable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery!Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love,I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity,not love,has been my folly.Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the  of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance,I have courted prepossession and ignorand driven reason away,where either were ed. Till this moment I never knew myself.”

    From herself to Jane—from Jao Bingley,her thoughts were in a line which soht to her recolle that Mr.Darcy's exnation there had appeared very insuffit,and she read it again.Widely different was the effect of a sed perusal.How could she deny that credit to his assertions in one instance,which she had been obliged to give iher?He dered himself to be totally unsuspicious of her sister's attat;and she could not help remembering what Charlotte's opinion had always beeher could she deny the justice of his deion of Jane.She felt that Jane's feelings,though fervent,were little disyed,and that there was a stant her air and manner not often united with great sensibility.

    When she came to that part of the letter in which her family were mentioned in terms of such mortifying, yet merited reproach,her sense of shame was severe.The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly for denial,and the circumstao which he particrly alluded as having passed at the herfield ball, and as firming all his first disapprobation, could not have made a stronger impression on his mind than on hers.

    Thepliment to herself and her sister was not u. It soothed, but it could not sole her for the pt which had thus been self-attracted by the rest of her family;and as she sidered that Jane's disappoi had in fact been the work of her  rtions,and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt by such impropriety of duct, she felt depressed beyond anything she had ever known before.

    After wandering along thene for two hiving way to every variety of thought—re-sideris, determining probabilities, and reg herself, as well as she could, to a ge so sudden and so important, fatigue, and a recolle of her long absence, made her at length return home; and she ehe house with the wish of appearing cheerful as usual, and the resolution of repressing such refles as must make her unfit for versation.

    She was immediately told that the two gentlemen from Rosings had each called during her absence;Mr.Darly for a few mio take leave—but that el Fitzwilliam had been sitting with them at least an hour, hoping for her return, and almost resolving to walk after her till she could be found. Elizabeth could but just affect  in missing him;she really rejoiced at it. el Fitzwilliam was no longer an object; she could think only of her letter.快眼看书小说阅读_www.bookcu.com

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