Austen Said:

what Lydia had dropt, if it were compatible with the secrecy which had been intended.

“You may readily comprehend,”

“what my curiosity must be to know how a person unconnected with any of us, and (comparatively speaking) a stranger to our family, should have been amongst you at such a time. Pray write instantly, and let me understand it — unless it is, for very cogent reasons, to remain in the secrecy which Lydia seems to think necessary; and then I must endeavour to be satisfied with ignorance.”

“Not that I shall though,”

“and my dear aunt, if you do not tell me in an honourable manner, I shall certainly be reduced to tricks and stratagems to find it out.”

till it appeared whether her inquiries would receive any satisfaction, she had rather be without a confidante.

what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her sister's match,

as an exertion of goodness too great to be probable,

from the pain of obligation, were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true! He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce. He had done all this for a girl whom he could neither regard nor esteem.

he had done it for her.

even her vanity was insufficient, when required to depend on his affection for her — for a woman who had already refused him — as able to overcome a sentiment so natural as abhorrence against relationship with Wickham.

Brother-in-law of Wickham! Every kind of pride must revolt from the connection.

He had, to be sure, done much. She was ashamed to think how much. But he had given a reason for his interference, which asked no extraordinary stretch of belief. It was reasonable that he should feel he had been wrong; he had liberality, and he had the means of exercising it; and though she would not place herself as his principal inducement,

remaining partiality for her, might assist his endeavours in a cause where her peace of mind must be materially concerned. It was painful, exceedingly painful, to know that they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a return. They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, every thing, to him.

Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him.

in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself.

“You certainly do,”

“but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome.”

“True. Are the others coming out?”

“Yes, she did.”

“That

and

she was afraid

At such a distance as that, you know, things are strangely misrepresented.”

“Perhaps preparing for his marriage with Miss de Bourgh,”

“It must be something particular, to take him there at this time of year.”

“Yes; he introduced us to his sister.”

“Very much.”

“I dare say she will; she has got over the most trying age.”

“I do not recollect that we did.”

“How should you have liked making sermons?”

“I have heard

from authority, which I thought as good,

that

“I did hear,

too,

that

that

and

that

“Come, Mr. Wickham, we are brother and sister, you know. Do not let us quarrel about the past. In future, I hope we shall be always of one mind.”

she had said enough to keep him quiet.

“This is the consequence, you see, Madam, of marrying a daughter,”

“It must make you better satisfied that your other four are single.”

capable of coming there with no other view than what was acknowledged;

the greater probability of his coming there with his friend's permission, or being bold enough to come without it.

“Yet it is hard,”

“that this poor man cannot come to a house which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation! I will leave him to himself.”

In spite of what her sister declared, and really believed to be her feelings in the expectation of his arrival,

her spirits were affected by it.