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Pride & Prejudice – page 544

JANE AUSTEN

“Yet it is hard,” she sometimes thought, “that this

poor man cannot come to a house which he has legally

hired, without raising all this speculation! I will leave

him to himself.”

In spite of what her sister declared, and really

believed to be her feelings in the expectation of his

arrival, Elizabeth could easily perceive that her spirits

were affected by it. They were more disturbed, more

unequal, than she had often seen them.

The subject which had been so warmly canvassed

between their parents, about a twelvemonth ago, was

now brought forward again.

“As soon as ever Mr. Bingley comes, my dear,” said

Mrs. Bennet, “you will wait on him of course.”

“No, no. You forced me into visiting him last year,

and promised, if I went to see him, he should marry one

of my daughters. But it ended in nothing, and I will not

be sent on a fool’s errand again.”

His wife represented to him how absolutely

necessary such an attention would be from all

the neighbouring gentlemen, on his returning to

Netherfield.

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