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Pride and Prejudice

“La!” replied Kitty, “it looks just like that man that

used to be with him before. Mr. what’s-his-name. That

tall, proud man.”

“Good gracious! Mr. Darcy!and so it does, I vow.

Well, any friend of Mr. Bingley’s will always be

welcome here, to be sure; but else I must say that I hate

the very sight of him.”

Jane looked at Elizabeth with surprise and concern.

She knew but little of their meeting in Derbyshire,

and therefore felt for the awkwardness which must

attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time

after receiving his explanatory letter. Both sisters were

uncomfortable enough. Each felt for the other, and of

course for themselves; and their mother talked on, of

her dislike of Mr. Darcy, and her resolution to be civil

to him only as Mr. Bingley’s friend, without being

heard by either of them. But Elizabeth had sources

of uneasiness which could not be suspected by Jane,

to whom she had never yet had courage to shew

Mrs. Gardiner’s letter, or to relate her own change of

sentiment towards him. To Jane, he could be only a

man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit

she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive

information, he was the person to whom the whole

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