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But, no,” recollecting\r\nherself, “that could never be; my uncle and aunt would have been lost to\r\nme; I should not have been allowed to invite them.”\r\n\r\nThis was a lucky recollection--it saved her from something like regret.\r\n\r\nShe longed to inquire of the housekeeper whether her master were really\r\nabsent, but had not courage for it. At length, however, the question was\r\nasked by her uncle; and she turned away with alarm, while Mrs. Reynolds\r\nreplied, that he was; adding, “But we expect him to-morrow, with a large\r\nparty of friends.” How rejoiced was Elizabeth that their own journey had\r\nnot by any circumstance been delayed a day!\r\n\r\nHer aunt now called her to look at a picture. She approached, and saw\r\nthe likeness of Mr. Wickham, suspended, amongst several other\r\nminiatures, over the mantel-piece. Her aunt asked her, smilingly, how\r\nshe liked it. The housekeeper came forward, and told them it was the\r\npicture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master’s steward, who\r\nhad been brought up by him at his own expense. “He is now gone into the\r\narmy,” she added; “but I am afraid he has turned out very wild.”\r\n\r\nMrs. Gardiner looked at her niece with a smile, but Elizabeth could not\r\nreturn it.\r\n\r\n“And that,” said Mrs. Reynolds, pointing to another of the miniatures,\r\n“is my master--and very like him. It was drawn at the same time as the\r\nother--about eight years ago.”\r\n\r\n“I have heard much of your master’s fine person,” said Mrs. Gardiner,\r\nlooking at the picture; “it is a handsome face. But, Lizzy, you can tell\r\nus whether it is like or not.”\r\n\r\nMrs. Reynolds’ respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this\r\nintimation of her knowing her master.\r\n\r\n“Does that young lady know Mr. Darcy?”\r\n\r\nElizabeth coloured, and said, “A little.”\r\n\r\n“And do not you think him a very handsome gentleman, ma’am?”\r\n\r\n“Yes, very handsome.”\r\n\r\n“I am sure _I_ know none so handsome; but in the gallery upstairs you\r\nwill see a finer, larger picture of him than this. This room was my late\r\nmaster’s favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to\r\nbe then. He was very fond of them.”\r\n\r\nThis accounted to Elizabeth for Mr. Wickham’s being among them.\r\n\r\nMrs. Reynolds then directed their attention to one of Miss Darcy, drawn\r\nwhen she was only eight years old.\r\n\r\n“And is Miss Darcy as handsome as her brother?” said Mr. Gardiner.\r\n\r\n“Oh, yes--the handsomest young lady that ever was seen; and so\r\naccomplished! She plays and sings all day long. In the next room is a\r\nnew instrument just come down for her--a present from my master: she\r\ncomes here to-morrow with him.”\r\n\r\nMr. Gardiner, whose manners were easy and pleasant, encouraged her\r\ncommunicativeness by his questions and remarks: Mrs. Reynolds, either\r\nfrom pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her\r\nmaster and his sister.\r\n\r\n“Is your master much at Pemberley in the course of the year?”\r\n\r\n“Not so much as I could wish, sir: but I dare say he may spend half his\r\ntime here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.”\r\n\r\n“Except,” thought Elizabeth, “when she goes to Ramsgate.”\r\n\r\n“If your master would marry, you might see more of him.”\r\n\r\n“Yes, sir; but I do not know when _that_ will be. I do not know who is\r\ngood enough for him.”\r\n\r\nMr. and Mrs. Gardiner smiled. Elizabeth could not help saying, “It is\r\nvery much to his credit, I am sure, that you should think so.”\r\n\r\n“I say no more than the truth, and what everybody will say that knows\r\nhim,” replied the other. Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far;\r\nand she listened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added,\r\n“I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him\r\never since he was four years old.”\r\n\r\nThis was praise of all others most extraordinary, most opposite to her\r\nideas. That he was not a good-tempered man had been her firmest opinion.\r\nHer keenest attention was awakened: she longed to hear more; and was\r\ngrateful to her uncle for saying,--\r\n\r\n“There are very few people of whom so much can be said. You are lucky in\r\nhaving such a master.”\r\n\r\n“Yes, sir, I know I am. If I were to go through the world, I could not\r\nmeet with a better. But I have always observed, that they who are\r\ngood-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he\r\nwas always the sweetest tempered, most generous-hearted boy in the\r\nworld.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth almost stared at her. “Can this be Mr. Darcy?” thought she.\r\n\r\n“His father was an excellent man,” said Mrs. Gardiner.\r\n\r\n“Yes, ma’am, that he was indeed; and his son will be just like him--just\r\nas affable to the poor.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth listened, wondered, doubted, and was impatient for more. Mrs.\r\nReynolds could interest her on no other point. She related the subjects\r\nof the pictures, the dimensions of the rooms, and the price of the\r\nfurniture in vain. Mr. Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family\r\nprejudice, to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her\r\nmaster, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his\r\nmany merits, as they proceeded together up the great staircase.\r\n\r\n“He is the best landlord, and the best master,” said she, “that ever\r\nlived. Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but\r\nthemselves. There is not one of his tenants or servants but what will\r\ngive him a good name. Some people call him proud; but I am sure I never\r\nsaw anything of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle\r\naway like other young men.”\r\n\r\n“In what an amiable light does this place him!” thought Elizabeth.\r\n\r\n“This fine account of him,” whispered her aunt as they walked, “is not\r\nquite consistent with his behaviour to our poor friend.”\r\n\r\n“Perhaps we might be deceived.”\r\n\r\n“That is not very likely; our authority was too good.”\r\n\r\nOn reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty\r\nsitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than\r\nthe apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to\r\ngive pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when\r\nlast at Pemberley.\r\n\r\n“He is certainly a good brother,” said Elizabeth, as she walked towards\r\none of the windows.\r\n\r\nMrs. Reynolds anticipated Miss Darcy’s delight, when she should enter\r\nthe room. “And this is always the way with him,” she added. “Whatever\r\ncan give his sister any pleasure, is sure to be done in a moment. There\r\nis nothing he would not do for her.”\r\n\r\nThe picture gallery, and two or three of the principal bed-rooms, were\r\nall that remained to be shown. In the former were many good paintings:\r\nbut Elizabeth knew nothing of the art; and from such as had been already\r\nvisible below, she had willingly turned to look at some drawings of Miss\r\nDarcy’s, in crayons, whose subjects were usually more interesting, and\r\nalso more intelligible.\r\n\r\nIn the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have\r\nlittle to fix the attention of a stranger. Elizabeth walked on in quest\r\nof the only face whose features would be known to her. At last it\r\narrested her--and she beheld a striking resemblance of Mr. Darcy, with\r\nsuch a smile over the face, as she remembered to have sometimes seen,\r\nwhen he looked at her. She stood several minutes before the picture, in\r\nearnest contemplation, and returned to it again before they quitted the\r\ngallery. Mrs. Reynolds informed them, that it had been taken in his\r\nfather’s lifetime.\r\n\r\nThere was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth’s mind, a more gentle\r\nsensation towards the original than she had ever felt in the height of\r\ntheir acquaintance. 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