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1"Is this," thought Elizabeth, "meant for me?" and she coloured at the idea; but, recovering herself, said in a lively
2tone, "And pray, what is the usual price of an earl's younger son? Unless the elder brother is very sickly, I suppose
3you would not ask above fifty thousand pounds." He answered her in the same style, and the subject dropped. To interrupt
4a silence which might make him fancy her affected with what had passed, she soon afterwards said,-- "I imagine your
5cousin brought you down with him chiefly for the sake of having somebody at his disposal. I wonder he does not marry, to
6secure a lasting convenience of that kind. But, perhaps, his sister does as well for the present; and, as she is under
7his sole care, he may do what he likes with her." "No," said Colonel Fitzwilliam, "that is an advantage which he must
8divide with me. I am joined with him in the guardianship of Miss Darcy." "Are you, indeed? And pray what sort of a
9guardian do you make? Does your charge give you much trouble? Young ladies of her age are sometimes a little difficult
10to manage; and if she has the true Darcy spirit, she may like to have her own way." As she spoke, she observed him
11looking at her earnestly; and the manner in which he immediately asked her why she supposed Miss Darcy likely to give
12them any uneasiness, convinced her that she had somehow or other got pretty near the truth. She directly replied,-- "You
13need not be frightened. I never heard any harm of her; and I dare say she is one of the most tractable creatures in the
14world. She is a very great favourite with some ladies of my acquaintance, Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley. I think I have
15heard you say that you know them." "I know them a little. Their brother is a pleasant, gentlemanlike man--he is a great
16friend of Darcy's." "Oh yes," said Elizabeth drily--"Mr. Darcy is uncommonly kind to Mr. Bingley, and takes a prodigious
17deal of care of him." "Care of him! Yes, I really believe Darcy does take care of him in those points where he most
18wants care. From something that he told me in our journey hither, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to
19him. But I ought to beg his pardon, for I have no right to suppose that Bingley was the person meant. It was all
20conjecture." "What is it you mean?" "It is a circumstance which Darcy of course could not wish to be generally known,
21because if it were to get round to the lady's family it would be an unpleasant thing." "You may depend upon my not
22mentioning it." "And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to be Bingley. What he told me was merely
23this: that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent
24marriage, but without mentioning names or any other particulars; and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing
25him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from knowing them to have been together the whole of
26last summer." "Did Mr. Darcy give you his reasons for this interference?" "I understood that there were some very strong
27objections against the lady." "And what arts did he use to separate them?" "He did not talk to me of his own arts," said
28Fitzwilliam, smiling. "He only told me what I have now told you." Elizabeth made no answer, and walked on, her heart
29swelling with indignation. After watching her a little, Fitzwilliam asked her why she was so thoughtful. "I am thinking
30of what you have been telling me," said she. "Your cousin's conduct does not suit my feelings. Why was he to be the
31judge?" "You are rather disposed to call his interference officious?" "I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide
32on the propriety of his friend's inclination; or why, upon his own judgment alone, he was to determine and direct in
33what manner that friend was to be happy. But," she continued, recollecting herself, "as we know none of the particulars,
34it is not fair to condemn him. It is not to be supposed that there was much affection in the case." "That is not an
35unnatural surmise," said Fitzwilliam; "but it is lessening the honour of my cousin's triumph very sadly." This was
36spoken jestingly, but it appeared to her so just a picture of Mr. Darcy, that she would not trust herself with an
37answer; and, therefore, abruptly changing the conversation, talked on indifferent matters till they reached the
38Parsonage. There, shut into her own room, as soon as their visitor left them, she could think without interruption of
39all that she had heard. It was not to be supposed that any other people could be meant than those with whom she was
40connected. There could not exist in the world two men over whom Mr. Darcy could have such boundless influence. That he
41had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Mr. Bingley and Jane, she had never doubted; but she had always
42attributed to Miss Bingley the principal design and arrangement of them. If his own vanity, however, did not mislead
43him, he was the cause--his pride and caprice were the cause--of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to
44suffer. He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no
45one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted. "There were some very strong objections against the lady,"
46were Colonel Fitzwilliam's words; and these strong objections probably were, her having one uncle who was a country
47attorney, and another who was in business in London. "To Jane herself," she exclaimed, "there could be no possibility of
48objection,--all loveliness and goodness as she is! Her understanding excellent, her mind improved, and her manners
49captivating. Neither could anything be urged against my father, who, though with some peculiarities, has abilities which
50Mr. Darcy himself need not disdain, and respectability which he will probably never reach." When she thought of her
51mother, indeed, her confidence gave way a little; but she would not allow that any objections there had material weight
52with Mr. Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's
53connections than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly governed by this
54worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retaining Mr. Bingley for his sister. The agitation and tears which the
55subject occasioned brought on a headache; and it grew so much worse towards the evening that, added to her unwillingness
56to see Mr. Darcy, it determined her not to attend her cousins to Rosings, where they were engaged to drink tea. Mrs.
57Collins, seeing that she was really unwell, did not press her to go, and as much as possible prevented her husband from
58pressing her; but Mr. Collins could not conceal his apprehension of Lady Catherine's being rather displeased by her
59staying at home. [Illustration] CHAPTER XXXIV. [Illustration] When they were gone, Elizabeth, as if intending to
60exasperate herself as much as possible against Mr. Darcy, chose for her employment the examination of all the letters
61which Jane had written to her since her being in Kent. They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of
62past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering. But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a
63want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterize her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a
64mind at ease with itself, and kindly disposed towards everyone, had been scarcely ever clouded. Elizabeth noticed every
65sentence conveying the idea of uneasiness, with an attention which it had hardly received on the first perusal. Mr.
66Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings. It
67was some consolation to think that his visit to Rosings was to end on the day after the next, and a still greater that
68in less than a fortnight she should herself be with Jane again, and enabled to contribute to the recovery of her
69spirits, by all that affection could do. She could not think of Darcy's leaving Kent without remembering that his cousin
70was to go with him; but Colonel Fitzwilliam had made it clear that he had no intentions at all, and, agreeable as he
71was, she did not mean to be unhappy about him.
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