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Of neither Darcy nor Wickham\r\ncould she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial,\r\nprejudiced, absurd.\r\n\r\n“How despicably have I acted!” she cried. “I, who have prided myself on\r\nmy discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have\r\noften disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my\r\nvanity in useless or blameless distrust. How humiliating is this\r\ndiscovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not\r\nhave been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my\r\nfolly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect\r\nof the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted\r\nprepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away where either were\r\nconcerned. Till this moment, I never knew myself.”\r\n\r\nFrom herself to Jane, from Jane to Bingley, her thoughts were in a line\r\nwhich soon brought to her recollection that Mr. Darcy’s explanation\r\n_there_ had appeared very insufficient; and she read it again. Widely\r\ndifferent was the effect of a second perusal. How could she deny that\r\ncredit to his assertions, in one instance, which she had been obliged to\r\ngive in the other? He declared himself to have been totally unsuspicious\r\nof her sister’s attachment; and she could not help remembering what\r\nCharlotte’s opinion had always been. Neither could she deny the justice\r\nof his description of Jane. She felt that Jane’s feelings, though\r\nfervent, were little displayed, and that there was a constant\r\ncomplacency in her air and manner, not often united with great\r\nsensibility.\r\n\r\nWhen she came to that part of the letter in which her family were\r\nmentioned, in tones of such mortifying, yet merited, reproach, her sense\r\nof shame was severe. The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly\r\nfor denial; and the circumstances to which he particularly alluded, as\r\nhaving passed at the Netherfield ball, and as confirming all his first\r\ndisapprobation, could not have made a stronger impression on his mind\r\nthan on hers.\r\n\r\nThe compliment to herself and her sister was not unfelt. It soothed, but\r\nit could not console her for the contempt which had been thus\r\nself-attracted by the rest of her family; and as she considered that\r\nJane’s disappointment had, in fact, been the work of her nearest\r\nrelations, and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt\r\nby such impropriety of conduct, she felt depressed beyond anything she\r\nhad ever known before.\r\n\r\nAfter wandering along the lane for two hours, giving way to every\r\nvariety of thought, reconsidering events, determining probabilities, and\r\nreconciling herself, as well as she could, to a change so sudden and so\r\nimportant, fatigue, and a recollection of her long absence, made her at\r\nlength return home; and she entered the house with the wish of appearing\r\ncheerful as usual, and the resolution of repressing such reflections as\r\nmust make her unfit for conversation.\r\n\r\nShe was immediately told, that the two gentlemen from Rosings had each\r\ncalled during her absence; Mr. Darcy, only for a few minutes, to take\r\nleave, but that Colonel Fitzwilliam had been sitting with them at least\r\nan hour, hoping for her return, and almost resolving to walk after her\r\ntill she could be found. Elizabeth could but just _affect_ concern in\r\nmissing him; she really rejoiced at it. Colonel Fitzwilliam was no\r\nlonger an object. She could think only of her letter.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration:\r\n\r\n“His parting obeisance”\r\n]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER XXXVII.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration]\r\n\r\nThe two gentlemen left Rosings the next morning; and Mr. Collins having\r\nbeen in waiting near the lodges, to make them his parting obeisance, was\r\nable to bring home the pleasing intelligence of their appearing in very\r\ngood health, and in as tolerable spirits as could be expected, after the\r\nmelancholy scene so lately gone through at Rosings. To Rosings he then\r\nhastened to console Lady Catherine and her daughter; and on his return\r\nbrought back, with great satisfaction, a message from her Ladyship,\r\nimporting that she felt herself so dull as to make her very desirous of\r\nhaving them all to dine with her.\r\n\r\nElizabeth could not see Lady Catherine without recollecting that, had\r\nshe chosen it, she might by this time have been presented to her as her\r\nfuture niece; nor could she think, without a smile, of what her\r\nLadyship’s indignation would have been. “What would she have said? how\r\nwould she have behaved?” were the questions with which she amused\r\nherself.\r\n\r\nTheir first subject was the diminution of the Rosings’ party. “I assure\r\nyou, I feel it exceedingly,” said Lady Catherine; “I believe nobody\r\nfeels the loss of friends so much as I do. But I am particularly\r\nattached to these young men; and know them to be so much attached to me!\r\nThey were excessively sorry to go! But so they always are. The dear\r\nColonel rallied his spirits tolerably till just at last; but Darcy\r\nseemed to feel it most acutely--more, I think, than last year. His\r\nattachment to Rosings certainly increases.”\r\n\r\nMr. Collins had a compliment and an allusion to throw in here, which\r\nwere kindly smiled on by the mother and daughter.\r\n\r\nLady Catherine observed, after dinner, that Miss Bennet seemed out of\r\nspirits; and immediately accounting for it herself, by supposing that\r\nshe did not like to go home again so soon, she added,--\r\n\r\n“But if that is the case, you must write to your mother to beg that you\r\nmay stay a little longer. Mrs. Collins will be very glad of your\r\ncompany, I am sure.”\r\n\r\n“I am much obliged to your Ladyship for your kind invitation,” replied\r\nElizabeth; “but it is not in my power to accept it. I must be in town\r\nnext Saturday.”\r\n\r\n“Why, at that rate, you will have been here only six weeks. I expected\r\nyou to stay two months. I told Mrs. Collins so before you came. There\r\ncan be no occasion for your going so soon. Mrs. Bennet could certainly\r\nspare you for another fortnight.”\r\n\r\n“But my father cannot. He wrote last week to hurry my return.”\r\n\r\n[Illustration:\r\n\r\n“Dawson”\r\n\r\n[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]\r\n\r\n“Oh, your father, of course, may spare you, if your mother can.\r\nDaughters are never of so much consequence to a father. And if you will\r\nstay another _month_ complete, it will be in my power to take one of you\r\nas far as London, for I am going there early in June, for a week; and\r\nas Dawson does not object to the barouche-box, there will be very good\r\nroom for one of you--and, indeed, if the weather should happen to be\r\ncool, I should not object to taking you both, as you are neither of you\r\nlarge.”\r\n\r\n“You are all kindness, madam; but I believe we must abide by our\r\noriginal plan.”\r\n\r\nLady Catherine seemed resigned. “Mrs. Collins, you must send a servant\r\nwith them. You know I always speak my mind, and I cannot bear the idea\r\nof two young women travelling post by themselves. It is highly improper.\r\nYou must contrive to send somebody. 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