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“If your master would marry,you might see more of him.”
“Yes,sir;but I do not know when that will be.I do not know who is good enough for him.”
Mr.and Mrs.Garder smiled.Elizabeth could not help sayg,“It is very much to his credit,I am sure,that you should thk so.”
“I say no more than the truth, and everybody will say that knows him,”replied the other.Elizabeth thought this was gog pretty far;and she listened with creasg astonishment as the housekeeper added,“I have never known a cross word from him my life, and I have known him ever sce he was four years old.”
This was praise,of all others most extraordary,most opposite to her ideas.That he was not a good-tempered man had been her firmest opion.Her keenest attention was awakened;she longed to hear more,and was grateful to her uncle for sayg:
“There are very few people of whom so much can be said.You are lucky havg such a master.”
“Yes,sir,I know I am.If I were to go through the world,I could not meet with a better. But I have always observed, that they who are good-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted boy the world.”
Elizabeth almost stared at her.“Can this be Mr. Darcy?”thought she.
“His father was an excellent man,”said Mrs.Garder.
“Yes, ma''am, that he was deed; and his son will be just like him—just as affable to the poor.”
Elizabeth listened,wondered,doubted,and was impatient for more. Mrs. Reynolds could terest her on no other pot. She related the subjects of the pictures,the dimensions of the rooms, and the price of the furniture, va. Mr. Garder, highly amused by the kd of family prejudice to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her master,soon led aga to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits as they proceeded together up the great staircase.
“He is the best landlord,and the best master,”said she,“that ever lived; not like the wild young men nowadays, who thk of nothg but themselves.There is not one of his tenants or servants but what will give him a good name. Some people call him proud;but I am sure I never saw anythg of it.To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.”
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