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Pride & Prejudice – page 536

JANE AUSTEN

“True. Are the others coming out?”

“I do not know. Mrs. Bennet and Lydia are going in

the carriage to Meryton. And so, my dear sister, I find,

from our uncle and aunt, that you have actually seen

Pemberley.”

She replied in the affirmative.

“I almost envy you the pleasure, and yet I believe it

would be too much for me, or else I could take it in my

way to Newcastle. And you saw the old housekeeper, I

suppose? Poor Reynolds, she was always very fond of

me. But of course she did not mention my name to you.”

“Yes, she did.”

“And what did she say?”

“That you were gone into the army, and she was

afraid hadnot turned out well. At such a distance as

that, you know, things are strangely misrepresented.”

“Certainly,” he replied, biting his lips. Elizabeth

hoped she had silenced him; but he soon afterwards

said:

“I was surprised to see Darcy in town last month. We

passed each other several times. I wonder what he can

be doing there.”

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