e of ducks just fit to be killed.”
Miss Be had not been able to hear of hising without ging colour.It was many months since she had mentioned his o Elizabeth;but now,as soon as they were aloogether, she said:
“I saw you look at me to-day, Lizzy, when my aunt told us of the prese;and I knoeared distressed.But don't imagi was from any silly cause.I was only fused for the moment,because I felt that I should be looked at.I do assure you that the news does not affect me either with pleasure or pain.I am d of ohing,that hees alone;because we shall see the less of him.Not that I am afraid of myself,but I dread other people's remarks.”
Elizabeth did not know what to make of it.Had she not seen him in Derbyshire, she might have supposed him capable ofing there with no other view than what was aowledged;but she still thought him partial to Jane, and she wavered as to the greater probability of hising there with his friend's permission,or being bold enough toe without it.
“Yet it is hard,”she sometimes thought,“that this poor man ote to a house which he has legally hired,without raising all this spe!I will leave him to himself.”
In spite of what her sister dered,and really believed to be her feelings in the expectation of his arrival, Elizabeth could easily perceive that her spirits were affected by it.They were more disturbed,more unequal,than she had oftehem.
The subject which had been so warmly vassed between their parents, abo
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