Austen Said:

entreated permission to introduce his friend, Mr. Wickham, who had returned with him the day before from town, and he was happy to say had accepted a commission in their corps.

how far Netherfield was from Meryton;

how long Mr. Darcy had been staying there.

her relation was very intimately acquainted with the family of de Bourgh.

Wickham had been obliged to go to town on business the day before, and was not yet returned;

“I do not imagine his business would have called him away just now, if he had not wanted to avoid a certain gentleman here.”

the necessity of his absence had been self-imposed.

trusting their opinion of her — their opinion of everybody — would always coincide,

he had formerly seen him often;

he was a very gentlemanlike man,

how she had liked him.

his dear sister Elizabeth,