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Pride & Prejudice – page 83

Chapter 10

The day passed much as the day before had done.

Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of

the morning with the invalid, who continued, though

slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined

their party in the drawing-room. The loo-table, how-

ever, did not appear. Mr. Darcy was writing, and Miss

Bingley, seated near him, was watching the progress

of his letter and repeatedly calling off his attention by

messages to his sister. Mr. Hurst and Mr. Bingley were

at piquet, and Mrs. Hurst was observing their game.

Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was suffi-

ciently amused in attending to what passed between

Darcy and his companion. The perpetual commenda-

tions of the lady, either on his handwriting, or on the

evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with

the perfect unconcern with which her praises were

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