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1"I wish I could say anything to comfort you," replied Elizabeth; "but it is wholly out of my power. You must feel it;
2and the usual satisfaction of preaching patience to a sufferer is denied me, because you have always so much." Mr.
3Bingley arrived. Mrs. Bennet, through the assistance of servants, contrived to have the earliest tidings of it, that the
4period of anxiety and fretfulness on her side be as long as it could. She counted the days that must intervene before
5their invitation could be sent--hopeless of seeing him before. But on the third morning after his arrival in
6Hertfordshire, she saw him from her dressing-room window enter the paddock, and ride towards the house. Her daughters
7were eagerly called to partake of her joy. Jane resolutely kept her place at the table; but Elizabeth, to satisfy her
8mother, went to the window--she looked--she saw Mr. Darcy with him, and sat down again by her sister. "There is a
9gentleman with him, mamma," said Kitty; "who can it be?" "Some acquaintance or other, my dear, I suppose; I am sure I do
10not know." "La!" replied Kitty, "it looks just like that man that used to be with him before. Mr. what's his name--that
11tall, proud man." "Good gracious! Mr. Darcy!--and so it does, I vow. Well, any friend of Mr. Bingley's will always be
12welcome here, to be sure; but else I must say that I hate the very sight of him." Jane looked at Elizabeth with surprise
13and concern. She knew but little of their meeting in Derbyshire, and therefore felt for the awkwardness which must
14attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter. Both sisters were
15uncomfortable enough. Each felt for the other, and of course for themselves; and their mother talked on of her dislike
16of Mr. Darcy, and her resolution to be civil to him only as Mr. Bingley's friend, without being heard by either of them.
17But Elizabeth had sources of uneasiness which could not yet be suspected by Jane, to whom she had never yet had courage
18to show Mrs. Gardiner's letter, or to relate her own change of sentiment towards him. To Jane, he could be only a man
19whose proposals she had refused, and whose merits she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was
20the person to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an
21interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as what Jane felt for Bingley. Her astonishment at
22his coming--at his coming to Netherfield, to Longbourn, and voluntarily seeking her again, was almost equal to what she
23had known on first witnessing his altered behaviour in Derbyshire. The colour which had been driven from her face
24returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for
25that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken; but she would not be secure. "Let me first see
26how he behaves," said she; "it will then be early enough for expectation." She sat intently at work, striving to be
27composed, and without daring to lift up her eyes, till anxious curiosity carried them to the face of her sister as the
28servant was approaching the door. Jane looked a little paler than usual, but more sedate than Elizabeth had expected. On
29the gentlemen's appearing, her colour increased; yet she received them with tolerable ease, and with a propriety of
30behaviour equally free from any symptom of resentment, or any unnecessary complaisance. Elizabeth said as little to
31either as civility would allow, and sat down again to her work, with an eagerness which it did not often command. She
32had ventured only one glance at Darcy. He looked serious as usual; and, she thought, more as he had been used to look in
33Hertfordshire, than as she had seen him at Pemberley. But, perhaps, he could not in her mother's presence be what he was
34before her uncle and aunt. It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture. Bingley she had likewise seen for an
35instant, and in that short period saw him looking both pleased and embarrassed. He was received by Mrs. Bennet with a
36degree of civility which made her two daughters ashamed, especially when contrasted with the cold and ceremonious
37politeness of her courtesy and address of his friend. Elizabeth particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the
38latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was hurt and distressed to a most painful
39degree by a distinction so ill applied. Darcy, after inquiring of her how Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner did--a question which
40she could not answer without confusion--said scarcely anything. He was not seated by her: perhaps that was the reason of
41his silence; but it had not been so in Derbyshire. There he had talked to her friends when he could not to herself. But
42now several minutes elapsed, without bringing the sound of his voice; and when occasionally, unable to resist the
43impulse of curiosity, she raised her eyes to his face, she as often found him looking at Jane as at herself, and
44frequently on no object but the ground. More thoughtfulness and less anxiety to please, than when they last met, were
45plainly expressed. She was disappointed, and angry with herself for being so. "Could I expect it to be otherwise?" said
46she. "Yet why did he come?" She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly
47courage to speak. She inquired after his sister, but could do no more. "It is a long time, Mr. Bingley, since you went
48away," said Mrs. Bennet. He readily agreed to it. "I began to be afraid you would never come back again. People did say,
49you meant to quit the place entirely at Michaelmas; but, however, I hope it is not true. A great many changes have
50happened in the neighbourhood since you went away. Miss Lucas is married and settled: and one of my own daughters. I
51suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have seen it in the papers. It was in the 'Times' and the 'Courier,' I
52know; though it was not put in as it ought to be. It was only said, 'Lately, George Wickham, Esq., to Miss Lydia
53Bennet,' without there being a syllable said of her father, or the place where she lived, or anything. It was my brother
54Gardiner's drawing up, too, and I wonder how he came to make such an awkward business of it. Did you see it?" Bingley
55replied that he did, and made his congratulations. Elizabeth dared not lift up her eyes. How Mr. Darcy looked,
56therefore, she could not tell. "It is a delightful thing, to be sure, to have a daughter well married," continued her
57mother; "but at the same time, Mr. Bingley, it is very hard to have her taken away from me. They are gone down to
58Newcastle, a place quite northward it seems, and there they are to stay, I do not know how long. His regiment is there;
59for I suppose you have heard of his leaving the ----shire, and of his being gone into the Regulars. Thank heaven! he has
60some friends, though, perhaps, not so many as he deserves." Elizabeth, who knew this to be levelled at Mr. Darcy, was in
61such misery of shame that she could hardly keep her seat. It drew from her, however, the exertion of speaking, which
62nothing else had so effectually done before; and she asked Bingley whether he meant to make any stay in the country at
63present. A few weeks, he believed. "When you have killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley," said her mother, "I beg you
64will come here and shoot as many as you please on Mr. Bennet's manor. I am sure he will be vastly happy to oblige you,
65and will save all the best of the coveys for you." Elizabeth's misery increased at such unnecessary, such officious
66attention! Were the same fair prospect to arise at present, as had flattered them a year ago, everything, she was
67persuaded, would be hastening to the same vexatious conclusion. At that instant she felt, that years of happiness could
68not make Jane or herself amends for moments of such painful confusion. "The first wish of my heart," said she to
69herself, "is never more to be in company with either of them. Their society can afford no pleasure that will atone for
70such wretchedness as this! Let me never see either one or the other again!"
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