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Pride and Prejudice

forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see

that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any

other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell,

but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.”

He then told her of Georgiana’s delight in her

acquaintance, and of her disappointment at its sudden

interruption; which naturally leading to the cause of

that interruption, she soon learnt that his resolution

of following her from Derbyshire in quest of her sister

had been formed before he quitted the inn, and that

his gravity and thoughtfulness there had arisen from

no other struggles than what such a purpose must

comprehend.

She expressed her gratitude again, but it was too

painful a subject to each, to be dwelt on farther.

After walking several miles in a leisurely manner,

and too busy to know anything about it, they found at

last, on examining their watches, that it was time to be

at home.

“What could have become of Mr. Bingley and Jane!”

was a wonder which introduced the discussion of their

affairs. Darcy was delighted with their engagement; his

friend had given him the earliest information of it.

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