Austen Said:

if he was acquainted with the former.

he had formerly seen him often;

he was a very gentlemanlike man,

how she had liked him.

“How long did you say he was at Rosings?”

“Nearly three weeks.”

“And you saw him frequently?”

“Yes, almost every day.”

“His manners are very different from his cousin's.”

“Yes, very different. But I think Mr. Darcy improves upon acquaintance.”

“Indeed!”

"And pray, may I ask? —”

“Is it in address that he improves? Has he deigned to add aught of civility to his ordinary style? — for I dare not hope,” he continued in a lower and more serious tone, “that he is improved in essentials.”

“Oh, no!”

“In essentials, I believe, he is very much what he ever was.”

“When I said that he improved on acquaintance, I did not mean that either his mind or his manners were in a state of improvement, but that, from knowing him better, his disposition was better understood.”

“You, who so well know my feeling towards Mr. Darcy, will readily comprehend how sincerely I must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume even the appearance of what is right. His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must only deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered by. I only fear that the sort of cautiousness to which you, I imagine, have been alluding, is merely adopted on his visits to his aunt, of whose good opinion and judgement he stands much in awe. His fear of her has always operated, I know, when they were together; and a good deal is to be imputed to his wish of forwarding the match with Miss de Bourgh, which I am certain he has very much at heart.”

he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances,

the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage,

the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.

though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.

“But it is fortunate,”

“that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But here, by carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realised. A scheme of which every part promises delight can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”

they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers had attended them, and where she had seen such beautiful ornaments as made her quite wild; that she had a new gown, or a new parasol, which she would have described more fully, but was obliged to leave off in a violent hurry, as Mrs. Forster called her, and they were going off to the camp;

by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton.

there might have been time enough.

“But surely,”

“I may enter his county with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me.”

she had no business at Pemberley,

She must own that she was tired of seeing great houses; after going over so many, she really had no pleasure in fine carpets or satin curtains.

The possibility of meeting Mr. Darcy, while viewing the place,

It would be dreadful!

it would be better to speak openly to her aunt than to run such a risk.

it could be the last resource, if her private inquiries as to the absence of the family were unfavourably answered.

whether Pemberley were not a very fine place? what was the name of its proprietor? and,

whether the family were down for the summer?

she had not really any dislike to the scheme.

a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.

to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!

lest the chambermaid had been mistaken.

her being where she was.

a respectable-looking elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil,

it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.

“And of this place,”

“I might have been mistress! With these rooms I might now have been familiarly acquainted! Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt. But no,”

that could never be; my uncle and aunt would have been lost to me; I should not have been allowed to invite them.”

whether her master was really absent,

their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day!

“A little.”

“Yes, very handsome.”