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in the very gentleness which had first delighted her, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary.
the reproof contained in his believing, that however long, and for whatever cause, his attentions had been withdrawn, her vanity would be gratified, and her preference secured at any time by their renewal.
Colonel Fitzwilliam's and Mr. Darcy's having both spent three weeks at Rosings,
if he was acquainted with the former.
he had formerly seen him often;
he was a very gentlemanlike man,
how she had liked him.
he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances,
for the felicity of her daughter,
she should not miss the opportunity of enjoying herself as much as possible —
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.
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.
Mr. Gardiner would be prevented by business from setting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again within a month, and as that left too short a period for them to go so far, and see so much as they had proposed, or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour, and, according to the present plan, were to go no farther northwards than Derbyshire. In that county there was enough to be seen to occupy the chief of their three weeks;
there might have been time enough.
Pemberley was situated. It was not in their direct road, nor more than a mile or two out of it.
to see the place again.
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.
whether her master was really absent,
he was,
their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day!
how she liked it.
it was a picture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master's steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense.
for Mr. Wickham's being among them.
This was praise, of all others most extraordinary, most opposite to her ideas.
That he was not a good-tempered man
it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room when last at Pemberley.
Miss Darcy's delight, when she should enter the room.
with such a smile over the face as she remembered to have sometimes seen when he looked at her.
it had been taken in his father's lifetime.
The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs. Reynolds was of no trifling nature.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? As a brother, a landlord, a master,
how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! — how much of pleasure or pain was it in his power to bestow! — how much of good or evil must be done by him!
Every idea that had been brought forward by the housekeeper was favourable to his character,