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Miss Bennet paused a little, and then replied,“Surely there can be no occasion for exposg him so dreadfully.What is your opion?”
“That it ought not to be attempted.Mr.Darcy has not authorised me to make his communication public. On the contrary, every particular relative to his sister was meant to be kept as much as possible to myself; and if I endeavour to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me?The general prejudice agast Mr. Darcy is so violent, that it would be the death of half the good people Meryton to attempt to place him an amiable light.I am not equal to it.Wickham will soon be gone;and therefore it will not signify to anyone here what he really is. Some time hence it will be all found out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity not knowg it before.At present I will say nothg about it.”
“You are quite right.To have his errors made public might ru him for ever. He is now, perhaps, sorry for what he has done, and anxious to re-establish a character.We must not make him desperate.”
The tumult of Elizabeth''s md was allayed by this conversation. She had got rid of two of the secrets which had weighed on her for a fortnight,and was certa of a willg listener Jane, whenever she might wish to talk aga of either. But there was still somethg lurkg behd, of which prudence forbade the disclosure. She dared not relate the other half of Mr. Darcy''s letter, nor expla to her sister how scerely she had been valued by her friend.Here was knowledge which no one could partake; and she was sensible that nothg less than a perfect understandg between the parties could justify her throwg off this last encumbrance of mystery.“And then,”said she,“if that very improbable event should ever take place,I shall merely be able to tell what Bgley may tell a much more agreeable manner himself.The liberty of communication cannot be me till it has lost all its value!”
She was now, on beg settled at home, at leisure to observe the real state of her sister''s spirits.Jane was not happy.She still cherished a very tender affection for Bgley.Havg never even fancied herself love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and, from her age and disposition, greater steadess than first attachments often boast;and so fervently did she value his remembrance,and prefer him to every other man, that all her good sense,and all her attention to the feelgs of her friends, were requisite to check the dulgence of those regrets which must have been jurious to her own health and their tranquillity.
“Well,Lizzy,”said Mrs.Bennet one day,“what is your opion now of this sad busess of Jane''s?For my part,I am determed never to speak of it aga to anybody.I told my sister Phillips so the other day. But I cannot fd out that Jane saw anythg of him London.Well,he is a very undeservg young man—and I do not suppose there''s the least chance the world of her ever gettg him now.There is no talk of his comg to Netherfield aga the summer;and I have quired of everybody,too,who is likely to know.”
“I do not believe he will ever live at Netherfield any more.”
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