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Mr. Darcy often acknowledged himself to\r\nbe under the greatest obligations to my father’s active superintendence;\r\nand when, immediately before my father’s death, Mr. Darcy gave him a\r\nvoluntary promise of providing for me, I am convinced that he felt it\r\nto be as much a debt of gratitude to _him_ as of affection to myself.”\r\n\r\n“How strange!” cried Elizabeth. “How abominable! I wonder that the very\r\npride of this Mr. Darcy has not made him just to you. If from no better\r\nmotive, that he should not have been too proud to be dishonest,--for\r\ndishonesty I must call it.”\r\n\r\n“It _is_ wonderful,” replied Wickham; “for almost all his actions may be\r\ntraced to pride; and pride has often been his best friend. It has\r\nconnected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling. But we are none\r\nof us consistent; and in his behaviour to me there were stronger\r\nimpulses even than pride.”\r\n\r\n“Can such abominable pride as his have ever done him good?”\r\n\r\n“Yes; it has often led him to be liberal and generous; to give his money\r\nfreely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants, and relieve the\r\npoor. Family pride, and _filial_ pride, for he is very proud of what his\r\nfather was, have done this. Not to appear to disgrace his family, to\r\ndegenerate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the\r\nPemberley House, is a powerful motive. He has also _brotherly_ pride,\r\nwhich, with _some_ brotherly affection, makes him a very kind and\r\ncareful guardian of his sister; and you will hear him generally cried up\r\nas the most attentive and best of brothers.”\r\n\r\n“What sort of a girl is Miss Darcy?”\r\n\r\nHe shook his head. “I wish I could call her amiable. It gives me pain to\r\nspeak ill of a Darcy; but she is too much like her brother,--very, very\r\nproud. As a child, she was affectionate and pleasing, and extremely fond\r\nof me; and I have devoted hours and hours to her amusement. But she is\r\nnothing to me now. She is a handsome girl, about fifteen or sixteen,\r\nand, I understand, highly accomplished. Since her father’s death her\r\nhome has been London, where a lady lives with her, and superintends her\r\neducation.”\r\n\r\nAfter many pauses and many trials of other subjects, Elizabeth could not\r\nhelp reverting once more to the first, and saying,--\r\n\r\n“I am astonished at his intimacy with Mr. Bingley. How can Mr. Bingley,\r\nwho seems good-humour itself, and is, I really believe, truly amiable,\r\nbe in friendship with such a man? How can they suit each other? Do you\r\nknow Mr. Bingley?”\r\n\r\n“Not at all.”\r\n\r\n“He is a sweet-tempered, amiable, charming man. He cannot know what Mr.\r\nDarcy is.”\r\n\r\n“Probably not; but Mr. Darcy can please where he chooses. He does not\r\nwant abilities. He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth\r\nhis while. Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a\r\nvery different man from what he is to the less prosperous. His pride\r\nnever deserts him; but with the rich he is liberal-minded, just,\r\nsincere, rational, honourable, and, perhaps, agreeable,--allowing\r\nsomething for fortune and figure.”\r\n\r\nThe whist party soon afterwards breaking up, the players gathered round\r\nthe other table, and Mr. Collins took his station between his cousin\r\nElizabeth and Mrs. Philips. The usual inquiries as to his success were\r\nmade by the latter. It had not been very great; he had lost every point;\r\nbut when Mrs. Philips began to express her concern thereupon, he assured\r\nher, with much earnest gravity, that it was not of the least importance;\r\nthat he considered the money as a mere trifle, and begged she would not\r\nmake herself uneasy.\r\n\r\n“I know very well, madam,” said he, “that when persons sit down to a\r\ncard table they must take their chance of these things,--and happily I\r\nam not in such circumstances as to make five shillings any object. There\r\nare, undoubtedly, many who could not say the same; but, thanks to Lady\r\nCatherine de Bourgh, I am removed far beyond the necessity of regarding\r\nlittle matters.”\r\n\r\nMr. Wickham’s attention was caught; and after observing Mr. Collins for\r\na few moments, he asked Elizabeth in a low voice whether her relations\r\nwere very intimately acquainted with the family of De Bourgh.\r\n\r\n“Lady Catherine de Bourgh,” she replied, “has very lately given him a\r\nliving. I hardly know how Mr. Collins was first introduced to her\r\nnotice, but he certainly has not known her long.”\r\n\r\n“You know of course that Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Lady Anne Darcy\r\nwere sisters; consequently that she is aunt to the present Mr. Darcy.”\r\n\r\n“No, indeed, I did not. I knew nothing at all of Lady Catherine’s\r\nconnections. I never heard of her existence till the day before\r\nyesterday.”\r\n\r\n“Her daughter, Miss de Bourgh, will have a very large fortune, and it is\r\nbelieved that she and her cousin will unite the two estates.”\r\n\r\nThis information made Elizabeth smile, as she thought of poor Miss\r\nBingley. Vain indeed must be all her attentions, vain and useless her\r\naffection for his sister and her praise of himself, if he were already\r\nself-destined to another.\r\n\r\n“Mr. Collins,” said she, “speaks highly both of Lady Catherine and her\r\ndaughter; but, from some particulars that he has related of her\r\nLadyship, I suspect his gratitude misleads him; and that, in spite of\r\nher being his patroness, she is an arrogant, conceited woman.”\r\n\r\n“I believe her to be both in a great degree,” replied Wickham; “I have\r\nnot seen her for many years; but I very well remember that I never liked\r\nher, and that her manners were dictatorial and insolent. She has the\r\nreputation of being remarkably sensible and clever; but I rather believe\r\nshe derives part of her abilities from her rank and fortune, part from\r\nher authoritative manner, and the rest from the pride of her nephew, who\r\nchooses that everyone connected with him should have an understanding of\r\nthe first class.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth allowed that he had given a very rational account of it, and\r\nthey continued talking together with mutual satisfaction till supper put\r\nan end to cards, and gave the rest of the ladies their share of Mr.\r\nWickham’s attentions. There could be no conversation in the noise of\r\nMrs. Philips’s supper party, but his manners recommended him to\r\neverybody. Whatever he said, was said well; and whatever he did, done\r\ngracefully. Elizabeth went away with her head full of him. She could\r\nthink of nothing but of Mr. Wickham, and of what he had told her, all\r\nthe way home; but there was not time for her even to mention his name as\r\nthey went, for neither Lydia nor Mr. Collins were once silent. Lydia\r\ntalked incessantly of lottery tickets, of the fish she had lost and the\r\nfish she had won; and Mr. Collins, in describing the civility of Mr. and\r\nMrs. Philips, protesting that he did not in the least regard his losses\r\nat whist, enumerating all the dishes at supper, and repeatedly fearing\r\nthat he crowded his cousins, had more to say than he could well manage\r\nbefore the carriage stopped at Longbourn House.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration:\r\n\r\n     “delighted to see their dear friend again”\r\n]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER XVII.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration]\r\n\r\nElizabeth related to Jane, the next day, what had passed between Mr.\r\nWickham and herself. Jane listened with astonishment and concern: she\r\nknew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr.\r\nBingley’s regard; and yet it was not in her nature to question the\r\nveracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJRRD3TNE5A6AKAVXSRFT9RC","peer_label":"pride-and-prejudice","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJRRC2C7K6XERRJES8143XGV","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJRRF1GQXGH5SGWQFV36Z7N3","peer_label":"late mr darcy","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:35.185Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF1JY0216AW1XW4XP2D1Z","peer_label":"wickhams father","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:35.185Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF1JH8VM8NMX4JF87P0BV","peer_label":"mr 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