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It was an earnest, steadfast gaze, but she often\r\ndoubted whether there were much admiration in it, and sometimes it\r\nseemed nothing but absence of mind.\r\n\r\nShe had once or twice suggested to Elizabeth the possibility of his\r\nbeing partial to her, but Elizabeth always laughed at the idea; and Mrs.\r\nCollins did not think it right to press the subject, from the danger of\r\nraising expectations which might only end in disappointment; for in her\r\nopinion it admitted not of a doubt, that all her friend’s dislike would\r\nvanish, if she could suppose him to be in her power.\r\n\r\nIn her kind schemes for Elizabeth, she sometimes planned her marrying\r\nColonel Fitzwilliam. He was, beyond comparison, the pleasantest man: he\r\ncertainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but,\r\nto counterbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage\r\nin the church, and his cousin could have none at all.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration: “On looking up”]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER XXXIII.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration]\r\n\r\nMore than once did Elizabeth, in her ramble within the park,\r\nunexpectedly meet Mr. Darcy. She felt all the perverseness of the\r\nmischance that should bring him where no one else was brought; and, to\r\nprevent its ever happening again, took care to inform him, at first,\r\nthat it was a favourite haunt of hers. How it could occur a second time,\r\ntherefore, was very odd! Yet it did, and even the third. It seemed like\r\nwilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance; for on these occasions it was\r\nnot merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away,\r\nbut he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her. He\r\nnever said a great deal, nor did she give herself the trouble of talking\r\nor of listening much; but it struck her in the course of their third\r\nencounter that he was asking some odd unconnected questions--about her\r\npleasure in being at Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her\r\nopinion of Mr. and Mrs. Collins’s happiness; and that in speaking of\r\nRosings, and her not perfectly understanding the house, he seemed to\r\nexpect that whenever she came into Kent again she would be staying\r\n_there_ too. His words seemed to imply it. Could he have Colonel\r\nFitzwilliam in his thoughts? She supposed, if he meant anything, he must\r\nmean an allusion to what might arise in that quarter. It distressed her\r\na little, and she was quite glad to find herself at the gate in the\r\npales opposite the Parsonage.\r\n\r\nShe was engaged one day, as she walked, in re-perusing Jane’s last\r\nletter, and dwelling on some passages which proved that Jane had not\r\nwritten in spirits, when, instead of being again surprised by Mr. Darcy,\r\nshe saw, on looking up, that Colonel Fitzwilliam was meeting her.\r\nPutting away the letter immediately, and forcing a smile, she said,--\r\n\r\n“I did not know before that you ever walked this way.”\r\n\r\n“I have been making the tour of the park,” he replied, “as I generally\r\ndo every year, and intended to close it with a call at the Parsonage.\r\nAre you going much farther?”\r\n\r\n“No, I should have turned in a moment.”\r\n\r\nAnd accordingly she did turn, and they walked towards the Parsonage\r\ntogether.\r\n\r\n“Do you certainly leave Kent on Saturday?” said she.\r\n\r\n“Yes--if Darcy does not put it off again. But I am at his disposal. He\r\narranges the business just as he pleases.”\r\n\r\n“And if not able to please himself in the arrangement, he has at least\r\ngreat pleasure in the power of choice. I do not know anybody who seems\r\nmore to enjoy the power of doing what he likes than Mr. Darcy.”\r\n\r\n“He likes to have his own way very well,” replied Colonel Fitzwilliam.\r\n“But so we all do. It is only that he has better means of having it than\r\nmany others, because he is rich, and many others are poor. I speak\r\nfeelingly. A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and\r\ndependence.”\r\n\r\n“In my opinion, the younger son of an earl can know very little of\r\neither. Now, seriously, what have you ever known of self-denial and\r\ndependence? When have you been prevented by want of money from going\r\nwherever you chose or procuring anything you had a fancy for?”\r\n\r\n“These are home questions--and perhaps I cannot say that I have\r\nexperienced many hardships of that nature. But in matters of greater\r\nweight, I may suffer from the want of money. Younger sons cannot marry\r\nwhere they like.”\r\n\r\n“Unless where they like women of fortune, which I think they very often\r\ndo.”\r\n\r\n“Our habits of expense make us too dependent, and there are not many in\r\nmy rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to\r\nmoney.”\r\n\r\n“Is this,” thought Elizabeth, “meant for me?” and she coloured at the\r\nidea; but, recovering herself, said in a lively tone, “And pray, what is\r\nthe usual price of an earl’s younger son? Unless the elder brother is\r\nvery sickly, I suppose you would not ask above fifty thousand pounds.”\r\n\r\nHe answered her in the same style, and the subject dropped. To interrupt\r\na silence which might make him fancy her affected with what had passed,\r\nshe soon afterwards said,--\r\n\r\n“I imagine your cousin brought you down with him chiefly for the sake of\r\nhaving somebody at his disposal. I wonder he does not marry, to secure a\r\nlasting convenience of that kind. But, perhaps, his sister does as well\r\nfor the present; and, as she is under his sole care, he may do what he\r\nlikes with her.”\r\n\r\n“No,” said Colonel Fitzwilliam, “that is an advantage which he must\r\ndivide with me. I am joined with him in the guardianship of Miss Darcy.”\r\n\r\n“Are you, indeed? And pray what sort of a guardian do you make? Does\r\nyour charge give you much trouble? Young ladies of her age are sometimes\r\na little difficult to manage; and if she has the true Darcy spirit, she\r\nmay like to have her own way.”\r\n\r\nAs she spoke, she observed him looking at her earnestly; and the manner\r\nin which he immediately asked her why she supposed Miss Darcy likely to\r\ngive them any uneasiness, convinced her that she had somehow or other\r\ngot pretty near the truth. She directly replied,--\r\n\r\n“You need not be frightened. I never heard any harm of her; and I dare\r\nsay she is one of the most tractable creatures in the world. She is a\r\nvery great favourite with some ladies of my acquaintance, Mrs. Hurst and\r\nMiss Bingley. I think I have heard you say that you know them.”\r\n\r\n“I know them a little. Their brother is a pleasant, gentlemanlike\r\nman--he is a great friend of Darcy’s.”\r\n\r\n“Oh yes,” said Elizabeth drily--“Mr. Darcy is uncommonly kind to Mr.\r\nBingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care of him.”\r\n\r\n“Care of him! Yes, I really believe Darcy _does_ take care of him in\r\nthose points where he most wants care. From something that he told me\r\nin our journey hither, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted\r\nto him. But I ought to beg his pardon, for I have no right to suppose\r\nthat Bingley was the person meant. It was all conjecture.”\r\n\r\n“What is it you mean?”\r\n\r\n“It is a circumstance which Darcy of course could not wish to be\r\ngenerally known, because if it were to get round to the lady’s family it\r\nwould be an unpleasant thing.”\r\n\r\n“You may depend upon my not mentioning it.”\r\n\r\n“And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to be\r\nBingley. What he told me was merely this: that he congratulated himself\r\non having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most\r\nimprudent marriage, but without mentioning names or any other\r\nparticulars; and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him\r\nthe kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from\r\nknowing them to have been together the whole of last summer.”\r\n\r\n“Did Mr."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJRRD3TNE5A6AKAVXSRFT9RC","peer_label":"pride-and-prejudice","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJRRC2C7K6XERRJES8143XGV","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJRREY6ZWGAT4FYVDEM6VE2E","peer_label":"mr collins","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF7YPKAMRSS5AR5RC8DQN","peer_label":"colonel fitzwilliam","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZKG263C7SQSDV3TZ5MX","peer_label":"elizabeth bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZJBEM6MWHW485H9DS9F","peer_label":"mr darcy","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFG0K5SREGAFMDG85V7D7","peer_label":"mrs collins","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF1J610RB97404J5Q53SH","peer_label":"hunsford","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"place","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF826ZSJSKKBWG7SK2KSN","peer_label":"rosings","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"estate","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFH1RFZ4DGN75Y0GWAYQR","peer_label":"parsonage","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"residence","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZGM87R12EADFF6YZZG3","peer_label":"jane bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF080QQFQRJXDVEZJMPV0","peer_label":"miss darcy","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZE4MTY540KMV82YTDGM","peer_label":"mrs hurst","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREY5SSJCQ67QYG0XTG9A8","peer_label":"mr bingley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF06V9ABE1JZWJHE56BCY","peer_label":"miss bingley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG2Y3ETYXVRV1DZVKKX50","peer_label":"church","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"entity","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG2NT2AX1DHR9PEVQAS6B","peer_label":"kent","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"geographic_region","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRG2WMTXY8MVM2DY1JTMGA","peer_label":"imprudent marriage","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"event_type","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.771Z"}}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:01.265Z","ts":"2026-03-03T02:30:11.542Z","edited_by":{"method":"system","user_id":"01KJ60XQBHJ0GBGTP9X8HXAPPM"}}