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Chapter 35

Elizabeth awoke the next morning to the same thoughts

and meditations which had at length closed her eyes.

She could not yet recover from the surprise of what had

happened; it was impossible to think of anything else;

and, totally indisposed for employment, she resolved,

soon after breakfast, to indulge herself in air and

exercise. She was proceeding directly to her favourite

walk, when the recollection of Mr. Darcy’s sometimes

coming there stopped her, and instead of entering the

park, she turned up the lane, which led farther from the

turnpike-road. The park paling was still the boundary

on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into

the ground.

After walking two or three times along that part of

the lane, she was tempted, by the pleasantness of the

morning, to stop at the gates and look into the park.

The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had

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