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Pride and Prejudice

with raptures some plans of the latter with regard to

new furniture.

Elizabeth, to whom Jane very soon communicated

the chief of all this, heard it in silent indignation. Her

heart was divided between concern for her sister, and

resentment against all others. To Caroline’s assertion

of her brother’s being partial to Miss Darcy she paid

no credit. That he was really fond of Jane, she doubted

no more than she had ever done; and much as she

had always been disposed to like him, she could not

think without anger, hardly without contempt, on that

easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution,

which now made him the slave of his designing friends,

and led him to sacrifice his own happiness to the caprice

of their inclination. Had his own happiness, however,

been the only sacrifice, he might have been allowed

to sport with it in whatever manner he thought best,

but her sister’s was involved in it, as she thought he

must be sensible himself. It was a subject, in short,

on which reflection would be long indulged, and must

be unavailing. She could think of nothing else; and

yet whether Bingley’s regard had really died away, or

were suppressed by his friends’ interference; whether

he had been aware of Jane’s attachment, or whether it

had escaped his observation; whatever were the case,

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