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assurance of his eagerness to promote the welfare of any of his family;

entreaties that the subject might never be mentioned to him again. The principal purport of his letter was to inform them that Mr. Wickham had resolved on quitting the militia .

besides, it was such a pity that Lydia should be taken from a regiment where she was acquainted with everybody, and had so many favourites.

to draw no limits in future to the impudence of an impudent man.

very unable to equal in her replies.

They seemed each of them to have the happiest memories in the world.

Wickham's affection for Lydia

not equal to Lydia's for him.

from the reason of things, that their elopement had been brought on by the strength of her love, rather than by his;

without violently caring for her, he chose to elope with her at all,

his flight was rendered necessary by distress of circumstances; and if that were the case, he was not the young man to resist an opportunity of having a companion.

her dear Wickham

no one was to be put in competition with him. He did every thing best in the world;

he would kill more birds on the first of September, than any body else in the country.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible; or at least it was impossible not to try for information.

Mr. Darcy had been at her sister's wedding. It was exactly a scene, and exactly among people, where he had apparently least to do, and least temptation to go.

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

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.

his dear sister Elizabeth,

she had said enough to keep him quiet.

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.

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.

They were more disturbed, more unequal, than she had often seen them.

how absolutely necessary such an attention would be from all the neighbouring gentlemen, on his returning to Netherfield.

though it was very mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before they did.

the awkwardness which must attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter.

to be civil to him only as Mr. Bingley's friend,

To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just as what Jane felt for Bingley.

at his coming to Netherfield, to Longbourn, and voluntarily seeking her again,

his affection and wishes must still be unshaken. But she would not be secure.

more as he had been used to look in Hertfordshire, than as she had seen him at Pemberley. But, perhaps he could not in her mother's presence be what he was before her uncle and aunt.

It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture.

her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy,

how Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner did,

He was not seated by her; perhaps that was the reason of his silence; but it had not been so in Derbyshire. There he had talked to her friends, when he could not to herself.

he did,

this to be levelled at Mr. Darcy,

whether he meant to make any stay in the country at present.