{"id":"01KJRRE0NRJ1NC6W3AVCC42TEJ","cid":"bafkreiaui62mao6fbaxbyyjhhwptczim2buudoivtouro6oq6repegdvdy","type":"text_chunk","properties":{"char_end":307003,"char_start":299195,"chunk_index":42,"chunk_total":108,"estimated_tokens":1952,"label":"wedding-day, and on Wednesday Miss Lucas paid her","source_file_key":"pride-and-prejudice","text":"wedding-day, and on Wednesday Miss Lucas paid her farewell visit; and\r\nwhen she rose to take leave, Elizabeth, ashamed of her mother’s\r\nungracious and reluctant good wishes, and sincerely affected herself,\r\naccompanied her out of the room. As they went down stairs together,\r\nCharlotte said,--\r\n\r\n“I shall depend on hearing from you very often, Eliza.”\r\n\r\n“_That_ you certainly shall.”\r\n\r\n“And I have another favour to ask. Will you come and see me?”\r\n\r\n“We shall often meet, I hope, in Hertfordshire.”\r\n\r\n“I am not likely to leave Kent for some time. Promise me, therefore, to\r\ncome to Hunsford.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth could not refuse, though she foresaw little pleasure in the\r\nvisit.\r\n\r\n“My father and Maria are to come to me in March,” added Charlotte, “and\r\nI hope you will consent to be of the party. Indeed, Eliza, you will be\r\nas welcome to me as either of them.”\r\n\r\nThe wedding took place: the bride and bridegroom set off for Kent from\r\nthe church door, and everybody had as much to say or to hear on the\r\nsubject as usual. Elizabeth soon heard from her friend, and their\r\ncorrespondence was as regular and frequent as it ever had been: that it\r\nshould be equally unreserved was impossible. Elizabeth could never\r\naddress her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over;\r\nand, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the\r\nsake of what had been rather than what was. Charlotte’s first letters\r\nwere received with a good deal of eagerness: there could not but be\r\ncuriosity to know how she would speak of her new home, how she would\r\nlike Lady Catherine, and how happy she would dare pronounce herself to\r\nbe; though, when the letters were read, Elizabeth felt that Charlotte\r\nexpressed herself on every point exactly as she might have foreseen. She\r\nwrote cheerfully, seemed surrounded with comforts, and mentioned nothing\r\nwhich she could not praise. The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and\r\nroads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine’s behaviour was most\r\nfriendly and obliging. It was Mr. Collins’s picture of Hunsford and\r\nRosings rationally softened; and Elizabeth perceived that she must wait\r\nfor her own visit there, to know the rest.\r\n\r\nJane had already written a few lines to her sister, to announce their\r\nsafe arrival in London; and when she wrote again, Elizabeth hoped it\r\nwould be in her power to say something of the Bingleys.\r\n\r\nHer impatience for this second letter was as well rewarded as impatience\r\ngenerally is. Jane had been a week in town, without either seeing or\r\nhearing from Caroline. She accounted for it, however, by supposing that\r\nher last letter to her friend from Longbourn had by some accident been\r\nlost.\r\n\r\n“My aunt,” she continued, “is going to-morrow into that part of the\r\ntown, and I shall take the opportunity of calling in Grosvenor Street.”\r\n\r\nShe wrote again when the visit was paid, and she had seen Miss Bingley.\r\n“I did not think Caroline in spirits,” were her words, “but she was very\r\nglad to see me, and reproached me for giving her no notice of my coming\r\nto London. I was right, therefore; my last letter had never reached her.\r\nI inquired after their brother, of course. He was well, but so much\r\nengaged with Mr. Darcy that they scarcely ever saw him. I found that\r\nMiss Darcy was expected to dinner: I wish I could see her. My visit was\r\nnot long, as Caroline and Mrs. Hurst were going out. I dare say I shall\r\nsoon see them here.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth shook her head over this letter. It convinced her that\r\naccident only could discover to Mr. Bingley her sister’s being in town.\r\n\r\nFour weeks passed away, and Jane saw nothing of him. She endeavoured to\r\npersuade herself that she did not regret it; but she could no longer be\r\nblind to Miss Bingley’s inattention. After waiting at home every morning\r\nfor a fortnight, and inventing every evening a fresh excuse for her, the\r\nvisitor did at last appear; but the shortness of her stay, and, yet\r\nmore, the alteration of her manner, would allow Jane to deceive herself\r\nno longer. The letter which she wrote on this occasion to her sister\r\nwill prove what she felt:--\r\n\r\n     “My dearest Lizzy will, I am sure, be incapable of triumphing in\r\n     her better judgment, at my expense, when I confess myself to have\r\n     been entirely deceived in Miss Bingley’s regard for me. But, my\r\n     dear sister, though the event has proved you right, do not think me\r\n     obstinate if I still assert that, considering what her behaviour\r\n     was, my confidence was as natural as your suspicion. I do not at\r\n     all comprehend her reason for wishing to be intimate with me; but,\r\n     if the same circumstances were to happen again, I am sure I should\r\n     be deceived again. Caroline did not return my visit till yesterday;\r\n     and not a note, not a line, did I receive in the meantime. When she\r\n     did come, it was very evident that she had no pleasure in it; she\r\n     made a slight, formal apology for not calling before, said not a\r\n     word of wishing to see me again, and was, in every respect, so\r\n     altered a creature, that when she went away I was perfectly\r\n     resolved to continue the acquaintance no longer. I pity, though I\r\n     cannot help blaming, her. She was very wrong in singling me out as\r\n     she did; I can safely say, that every advance to intimacy began on\r\n     her side. But I pity her, because she must feel that she has been\r\n     acting wrong, and because I am very sure that anxiety for her\r\n     brother is the cause of it. I need not explain myself farther; and\r\n     though _we_ know this anxiety to be quite needless, yet if she\r\n     feels it, it will easily account for her behaviour to me; and so\r\n     deservedly dear as he is to his sister, whatever anxiety she may\r\n     feel on his behalf is natural and amiable. I cannot but wonder,\r\n     however, at her having any such fears now, because if he had at all\r\n     cared about me, we must have met long, long ago. He knows of my\r\n     being in town, I am certain, from something she said herself; and\r\n     yet it would seem, by her manner of talking, as if she wanted to\r\n     persuade herself that he is really partial to Miss Darcy. I cannot\r\n     understand it. If I were not afraid of judging harshly, I should be\r\n     almost tempted to say, that there is a strong appearance of\r\n     duplicity in all this. I will endeavour to banish every painful\r\n     thought, and think only of what will make me happy, your affection,\r\n     and the invariable kindness of my dear uncle and aunt. Let me hear\r\n     from you very soon. Miss Bingley said something of his never\r\n     returning to Netherfield again, of giving up the house, but not\r\n     with any certainty. We had better not mention it. I am extremely\r\n     glad that you have such pleasant accounts from our friends at\r\n     Hunsford. Pray go to see them, with Sir William and Maria. I am\r\n     sure you will be very comfortable there.\r\n\r\n“Yours, etc.”\r\n\r\nThis letter gave Elizabeth some pain; but her spirits returned, as she\r\nconsidered that Jane would no longer be duped, by the sister at least.\r\nAll expectation from the brother was now absolutely over. She would not\r\neven wish for any renewal of his attentions. His character sunk on every\r\nreview of it; and, as a punishment for him, as well as a possible\r\nadvantage to Jane, she seriously hoped he might really soon marry Mr.\r\nDarcy’s sister, as, by Wickham’s account, she would make him abundantly\r\nregret what he had thrown away.\r\n\r\nMrs. Gardiner about this time reminded Elizabeth of her promise\r\nconcerning that gentleman, and required information; and Elizabeth had\r\nsuch to send as might rather give contentment to her aunt than to\r\nherself. 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