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1"Did you go by the village of Kympton?" "I do not recollect that we did." "I mention it because it is the living which I
2ought to have had. A most delightful place! Excellent parsonage-house! It would have suited me in every respect." "How
3should you have liked making sermons?" "Exceedingly well. I should have considered it as part of my duty, and the
4exertion would soon have been nothing. One ought not to repine; but, to be sure, it would have been such a thing for me!
5The quiet, the retirement of such a life, would have answered all my ideas of happiness! But it was not to be. Did you
6ever hear Darcy mention the circumstance when you were in Kent?" "I have heard from authority, which I thought as good,
7that it was left you conditionally only, and at the will of the present patron." "You have! Yes, there was something in
8that; I told you so from the first, you may remember." "I did hear, too, that there was a time when sermon-making was
9not so palatable to you as it seems to be at present; that you actually declared your resolution of never taking orders,
10and that the business had been compromised accordingly." "You did! and it was not wholly without foundation. You may
11remember what I told you on that point, when first we talked of it." They were now almost at the door of the house, for
12she had walked fast to get rid of him; and unwilling, for her sister's sake, to provoke him, she only said in reply,
13with a good-humoured smile,-- "Come, Mr. Wickham, we are brother and sister, you know. Do not let us quarrel about the
14past. In future, I hope we shall be always of one mind." She held out her hand: he kissed it with affectionate
15gallantry, though he hardly knew how to look, and they entered the house. [Illustration: "Mr. Darcy with him." ] CHAPTER
16LIII. [Illustration] Mr. Wickham was so perfectly satisfied with this conversation, that he never again distressed
17himself, or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth, by introducing the subject of it; and she was pleased to find that she
18had said enough to keep him quiet. The day of his and Lydia's departure soon came; and Mrs. Bennet was forced to submit
19to a separation, which, as her husband by no means entered into her scheme of their all going to Newcastle, was likely
20to continue at least a twelvemonth. "Oh, my dear Lydia," she cried, "when shall we meet again?" "Oh, Lord! I don't know.
21Not these two or three years, perhaps." "Write to me very often, my dear." "As often as I can. But you know married
22women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do." Mr. Wickham's
23adieus were much more affectionate than his wife's. He smiled, looked handsome, and said many pretty things. "He is as
24fine a fellow," said Mr. Bennet, as soon as they were out of the house, "as ever I saw. He simpers, and smirks, and
25makes love to us all. I am prodigiously proud of him. I defy even Sir William Lucas himself to produce a more valuable
26son-in-law." The loss of her daughter made Mrs. Bennet very dull for several days. "I often think," said she, "that
27there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them." "This is the consequence, you
28see, madam, of marrying a daughter," said Elizabeth. "It must make you better satisfied that your other four are
29single." "It is no such thing. Lydia does not leave me because she is married; but only because her husband's regiment
30happens to be so far off. If that had been nearer, she would not have gone so soon." But the spiritless condition which
31this event threw her into was shortly relieved, and her mind opened again to the agitation of hope, by an article of
32news which then began to be in circulation. The housekeeper at Netherfield had received orders to prepare for the
33arrival of her master, who was coming down in a day or two, to shoot there for several weeks. Mrs. Bennet was quite in
34the fidgets. She looked at Jane, and smiled, and shook her head, by turns. "Well, well, and so Mr. Bingley is coming
35down, sister," (for Mrs. Philips first brought her the news). "Well, so much the better. Not that I care about it,
36though. He is nothing to us, you know, and I am sure I never want to see him again. But, however, he is very welcome to
37come to Netherfield, if he likes it. And who knows what may happen? But that is nothing to us. You know, sister, we
38agreed long ago never to mention a word about it. And so, it is quite certain he is coming?" "You may depend on it,"
39replied the other, "for Mrs. Nichols was in Meryton last night: I saw her passing by, and went out myself on purpose to
40know the truth of it; and she told me that it was certainly true. He comes down on Thursday, at the latest, very likely
41on Wednesday. She was going to the butcher's, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has
42got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed." Miss Bennet had not been able to hear of his coming without changing
43colour. It was many months since she had mentioned his name to Elizabeth; but now, as soon as they were alone together,
44she said,-- "I saw you look at me to-day, Lizzy, when my aunt told us of the present report; and I know I appeared
45distressed; but don't imagine it was from any silly cause. I was only confused for the moment, because I felt that I
46should be looked at. I do assure you that the news does not affect me either with pleasure or pain. I am glad of one
47thing, that he comes alone; because we shall see the less of him. Not that I am afraid of myself, but I dread other
48people's remarks." Elizabeth did not know what to make of it. Had she not seen him in Derbyshire, she might have
49supposed him capable of coming there with no other view than what was acknowledged; but she still thought him partial to
50Jane, and she wavered as to the greater probability of his coming there with his friend's permission, or being bold
51enough to come without it. "Yet it is hard," she sometimes thought, "that this poor man cannot come to a house, which he
52has legally hired, without raising all this speculation! I will leave him to himself." In spite of what her sister
53declared, and really believed to be her feelings, in the expectation of his arrival, Elizabeth could easily perceive
54that her spirits were affected by it. They were more disturbed, more unequal, than she had often seen them. The subject
55which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents, about a twelvemonth ago, was now brought forward again. "As
56soon as ever Mr. Bingley comes, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "you will wait on him, of course." "No, no. You forced me
57into visiting him last year, and promised, if I went to see him, he should marry one of my daughters. But it ended in
58nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool's errand again." His wife represented to him how absolutely necessary such an
59attention would be from all the neighbouring gentlemen, on his returning to Netherfield. "'Tis an etiquette I despise,"
60said he. "If he wants our society, let him seek it. He knows where we live. I will not spend my hours in running after
61my neighbours every time they go away and come back again." "Well, all I know is, that it will be abominably rude if you
62do not wait on him. But, however, that shan't prevent my asking him to dine here, I am determined. We must have Mrs.
63Long and the Gouldings soon. That will make thirteen with ourselves, so there will be just room at table for him."
64Consoled by this resolution, she was the better able to bear her husband's incivility; though it was very mortifying to
65know that her neighbours might all see Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before they did. As the day of his arrival
66drew near,-- "I begin to be sorry that he comes at all," said Jane to her sister. "It would be nothing; I could see him
67with perfect indifference; but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of. My mother means well; but she
68does not know, no one can know, how much I suffer from what she says. Happy shall I be when his stay at Netherfield is
69over!"
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