deg whether she most feared or wished for the appearanr.Darcy,by the feelings which prevailed on his entering the room; and then, though but a moment before she had believed her wishes to predominate,she began tret that he came.
He had been some time with Mr. Gardiner, who, with two or three entlemen from the house, was engaged by the river, and had left him only on learning that thedies of the family intended a visit to Giana that m. No sooner did he appear than Elizabeth wisely resolved to be perfectly easy and unembarrassed; a resolution the more necessary to be made, but perhaps not the more easily kept, because she saw that the suspis of the whole party were awakened against them,and that there was scarcely an eye which did not watch his behaviour when he first came into the room.In no tenance was attentive curiosity sly marked as in Miss Bingley's, in spite of the smiles which overspread her face whenever she spoke to one of its objects; for jealousy had not yet made her desperate, atentions to Mr. Darcy were by no means over.Miss Dar her brother's entraed herself much more to talk,and Elizabeth saw that he was anxious for his sister and herself to get acquainted,and forwarded as much as possible, every attempt at versation oher side. Miss Bingley saw all this likewise;and,in the imprudence of aook the first opportunity of saying,with sneering civility:
“Pray, Miss Eliza, are not the—shire Militia removed from Meryton?They must be a great loss to
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