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Chapter 33

More than once did Elizabeth, in her ramble within

the park, unexpectedly meet Mr. Darcy. She felt all the

perverseness of the mischance that should bring him

where no one else was brought, and, to prevent its

ever happening again, took care to inform him at first

that it was a favourite haunt of hers. How it could

occur a second time, therefore, was very odd! Yet it did,

and even a third. It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a

voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not

merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause

and then away, but he actually thought it necessary

to turn back and walk with her. He never said a great

deal, nor did she give herself the trouble of talking

or of listening much; but it struck her in the course

of their third rencontre that he was asking some odd

unconnected questionsabout her pleasure in being at

Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her opinion of

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