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1He had been some time with Mr. Gardiner, who, with two or three other gentlemen from the house, was engaged by the
2river; and had left him only on learning that the ladies of the family intended a visit to Georgiana that morning. No
3sooner did he appear, than Elizabeth wisely resolved to be perfectly easy and unembarrassed;--a resolution the more
4necessary to be made, but perhaps not the more easily kept, because she saw that the suspicions of the whole party were
5awakened against them, and that there was scarcely an eye which did not watch his behaviour when he first came into the
6room. In no countenance was attentive curiosity so strongly marked as in Miss Bingley's, in spite of the smiles which
7overspread her face whenever she spoke to one of its objects; for jealousy had not yet made her desperate, and her
8attentions to Mr. Darcy were by no means over. Miss Darcy, on her brother's entrance, exerted herself much more to talk;
9and Elizabeth saw that he was anxious for his sister and herself to get acquainted, and forwarded, as much as possible,
10every attempt at conversation on either side. Miss Bingley saw all this likewise; and, in the imprudence of anger, took
11the first opportunity of saying, with sneering civility,-- "Pray, Miss Eliza, are not the ----shire militia removed from
12Meryton? They must be a great loss to your family." In Darcy's presence she dared not mention Wickham's name: but
13Elizabeth instantly comprehended that he was uppermost in her thoughts; and the various recollections connected with him
14gave her a moment's distress; but, exerting herself vigorously to repel the ill-natured attack, she presently answered
15the question in a tolerably disengaged tone. While she spoke, an involuntary glance showed her Darcy with a heightened
16complexion, earnestly looking at her, and his sister overcome with confusion, and unable to lift up her eyes. Had Miss
17Bingley known what pain she was then giving her beloved friend, she undoubtedly would have refrained from the hint; but
18she had merely intended to discompose Elizabeth, by bringing forward the idea of a man to whom she believed her partial,
19to make her betray a sensibility which might injure her in Darcy's opinion, and, perhaps, to remind the latter of all
20the follies and absurdities by which some part of her family were connected with that corps. Not a syllable had ever
21reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement. To no creature had it been revealed, where secrecy was possible, except
22to Elizabeth; and from all Bingley's connections her brother was particularly anxious to conceal it, from that very wish
23which Elizabeth had long ago attributed to him, of their becoming hereafter her own. He had certainly formed such a
24plan; and without meaning that it should affect his endeavour to separate him from Miss Bennet, it is probable that it
25might add something to his lively concern for the welfare of his friend. Elizabeth's collected behaviour, however, soon
26quieted his emotion; and as Miss Bingley, vexed and disappointed, dared not approach nearer to Wickham, Georgiana also
27recovered in time, though not enough to be able to speak any more. Her brother, whose eye she feared to meet, scarcely
28recollected her interest in the affair; and the very circumstance which had been designed to turn his thoughts from
29Elizabeth, seemed to have fixed them on her more and more cheerfully. Their visit did not continue long after the
30question and answer above mentioned; and while Mr. Darcy was attending them to their carriage, Miss Bingley was venting
31her feelings in criticisms on Elizabeth's person, behaviour, and dress. But Georgiana would not join her. Her brother's
32recommendation was enough to insure her favour: his judgment could not err; and he had spoken in such terms of
33Elizabeth, as to leave Georgiana without the power of finding her otherwise than lovely and amiable. When Darcy returned
34to the saloon, Miss Bingley could not help repeating to him some part of what she had been saying to his sister. "How
35very ill Eliza Bennet looks this morning, Mr. Darcy," she cried: "I never in my life saw anyone so much altered as she
36is since the winter. She is grown so brown and coarse! Louisa and I were agreeing that we should not have known her
37again." However little Mr. Darcy might have liked such an address, he contented himself with coolly replying, that he
38perceived no other alteration than her being rather tanned,--no miraculous consequence of travelling in the summer. "For
39my own part," she rejoined, "I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her
40complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing
41marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes
42been called so fine, I never could perceive anything extraordinary in them. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do
43not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable."
44Persuaded as Miss Bingley was that Darcy admired Elizabeth, this was not the best method of recommending herself; but
45angry people are not always wise; and in seeing him at last look somewhat nettled, she had all the success she expected.
46He was resolutely silent, however; and, from a determination of making him speak, she continued,-- "I remember, when we
47first knew her in Hertfordshire, how amazed we all were to find that she was a reputed beauty; and I particularly
48recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'She a beauty! I should as soon call her
49mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time."
50"Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was only when I first knew her; for it is many
51months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance." He then went away, and Miss
52Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself. Mrs.
53Gardiner and Elizabeth talked of all that had occurred during their visit, as they returned, except what had
54particularly interested them both. The looks and behaviour of everybody they had seen were discussed, except of the
55person who had mostly engaged their attention. They talked of his sister, his friends, his house, his fruit, of
56everything but himself; yet Elizabeth was longing to know what Mrs. Gardiner thought of him, and Mrs. Gardiner would
57have been highly gratified by her niece's beginning the subject. [Illustration]
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