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Pride & Prejudice – page 205

Pride and Prejudice

“It is only evident that Miss Bingley does not mean

that he should.”

“Why will you think so? It must be his own doing.

He is his own master. But you do not know all. I will

read you the passage which particularly hurts me. I will

have no reserves from you.”

“Mr. Darcy is impatient to see his sister; and, to

confess the truth, we are scarcely less eager to meet

her again. I really do not think Georgiana Darcy has

her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments;

and the affection she inspires in Louisa and myself is

heightened into something still more interesting, from

the hope we dare entertain of her being hereafter our

sister. I do not know whether I ever before mentioned

to you my feelings on this subject; but I will not leave

the country without confiding them, and I trust you

will not esteem them unreasonable. My brother admires

her greatly already; he will have frequent opportunity

now of seeing her on the most intimate footing; her

relations all wish the connection as much as his own;

and a sister’s partiality is not misleading me, I think,

when I call Charles most capable of engaging any

woman’s heart. With all these circumstances to favour

an attachment, and nothing to prevent it, am I wrong,

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