{"id":"01KJRRE0R5WRGYXWPSXK5MT4J0","cid":"bafkreib7y7urmwpesz3qdfbpn6zsgqzirm7tvvkmlyfpfodbvulc2qwnq4","type":"text_chunk","properties":{"char_end":492014,"char_start":484069,"chunk_index":68,"chunk_total":108,"estimated_tokens":1987,"label":"In the gallery there were many family portraits,","source_file_key":"pride-and-prejudice","text":"\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. The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs. Reynolds\r\nwas of no trifling nature. What praise is more valuable than the praise\r\nof an intelligent servant? As a brother, a landlord, a master, she\r\nconsidered how many people’s happiness were in his guardianship! How\r\nmuch of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! How much of good\r\nor evil must be done by him! Every idea that had been brought forward by\r\nthe housekeeper was favourable to his character; and as she stood before\r\nthe canvas, on which he was represented, and fixed his eyes upon\r\nherself, she thought of his regard with a deeper sentiment of gratitude\r\nthan it had ever raised before: she remembered its warmth, and softened\r\nits impropriety of expression.\r\n\r\nWhen all of the house that was open to general inspection had been seen,\r\nthey returned down stairs; and, taking leave of the housekeeper, were\r\nconsigned over to the gardener, who met them at the hall door.\r\n\r\nAs they walked across the lawn towards the river, Elizabeth turned back\r\nto look again; her uncle and aunt stopped also; and while the former was\r\nconjecturing as to the date of the building, the owner of it himself\r\nsuddenly came forward from the road which led behind it to the stables.\r\n\r\nThey were within twenty yards of each other; and so abrupt was his\r\nappearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes\r\ninstantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest\r\nblush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immovable from\r\nsurprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party,\r\nand spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least\r\nof perfect civility.\r\n\r\nShe had instinctively turned away; but stopping on his approach,\r\nreceived his compliments with an embarrassment impossible to be\r\novercome. Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture\r\nthey had just been examining, been insufficient to assure the other two\r\nthat they now saw Mr. Darcy, the gardener’s expression of surprise, on\r\nbeholding his master, must immediately have told it. They stood a little\r\naloof while he was talking to their niece, who, astonished and confused,\r\nscarcely dared lift her eyes to his face, and knew not what answer she\r\nreturned to his civil inquiries after her family. Amazed at the\r\nalteration of his manner since they last parted, every sentence that he\r\nuttered was increasing her embarrassment; and every idea of the\r\nimpropriety of her being found there recurring to her mind, the few\r\nminutes in which they continued together were some of the most\r\nuncomfortable of her life. Nor did he seem much more at ease; when he\r\nspoke, his accent had none of its usual sedateness; and he repeated his\r\ninquiries as to the time of her having left Longbourn, and of her stay\r\nin Derbyshire, so often, and in so hurried a way, as plainly spoke the\r\ndistraction of his thoughts.\r\n\r\nAt length, every idea seemed to fail him; and after standing a few\r\nmoments without saying a word, he suddenly recollected himself, and took\r\nleave.\r\n\r\nThe others then joined her, and expressed their admiration of his\r\nfigure; but Elizabeth heard not a word, and, wholly engrossed by her own\r\nfeelings, followed them in silence. She was overpowered by shame and\r\nvexation. Her coming there was the most unfortunate, the most ill-judged\r\nthing in the world! How strange must it appear to him! In what a\r\ndisgraceful light might it not strike so vain a man! It might seem as if\r\nshe had purposely thrown herself in his way again! Oh! why did she come?\r\nor, why did he thus come a day before he was expected? Had they been\r\nonly ten minutes sooner, they should have been beyond the reach of his\r\ndiscrimination; for it was plain that he was that moment arrived, that\r\nmoment alighted from his horse or his carriage. She blushed again and\r\nagain over the perverseness of the meeting. And his behaviour, so\r\nstrikingly altered,--what could it mean? That he should even speak to\r\nher was amazing!--but to speak with such civility, to inquire after her\r\nfamily! Never in her life had she seen his manners so little dignified,\r\nnever had he spoken with such gentleness as on this unexpected meeting.\r\nWhat a contrast did it offer to his last address in Rosings Park, when\r\nhe put his letter into her hand! She knew not what to think, or how to\r\naccount for it.\r\n\r\nThey had now entered a beautiful walk by the side of the water, and\r\nevery step was bringing forward a nobler fall of ground, or a finer\r\nreach of the woods to which they were approaching: but it was some time\r\nbefore Elizabeth was sensible of any of it; and, though she answered\r\nmechanically to the repeated appeals of her uncle and aunt, and seemed\r\nto direct her eyes to such objects as they pointed out, she\r\ndistinguished no part of the scene. Her thoughts were all fixed on that\r\none spot of Pemberley House, whichever it might be, where Mr. Darcy then\r\nwas. She longed to know what at that moment was passing in his mind; in\r\nwhat manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything,\r\nshe was still dear to him. Perhaps he had been civil only because he\r\nfelt himself at ease; yet there had been _that_ in his voice, which was\r\nnot like ease. Whether he had felt more of pain or of pleasure in seeing\r\nher, she could not tell, but he certainly had not seen her with\r\ncomposure.\r\n\r\nAt length, however, the remarks of her companions on her absence of mind\r\nroused her, and she felt the necessity of appearing more like herself.\r\n\r\nThey entered the woods, and, bidding adieu to the river for a while,\r\nascended some of the higher grounds; whence, in spots where the opening\r\nof the trees gave the eye power to wander, were many charming views of\r\nthe valley, the opposite hills, with the long range of woods\r\noverspreading many, and occasionally part of the stream. Mr. Gardiner\r\nexpressed a wish of going round the whole park, but feared it might be\r\nbeyond a walk. With a triumphant smile, they were told, that it was ten\r\nmiles round. It settled the matter; and they pursued the accustomed\r\ncircuit; which brought them again, after some time, in a descent among\r\nhanging woods, to the edge of the water, and one of its narrowest parts.\r\nThey crossed it by a simple bridge, in character with the general air of\r\nthe scene: it was a spot less adorned than any they had yet visited; and\r\nthe valley, here contracted into a glen, allowed room only for the\r\nstream, and a narrow walk amidst the rough coppice-wood which bordered\r\nit. Elizabeth longed to explore its windings; but when they had crossed\r\nthe bridge, and perceived their distance from the house, Mrs. Gardiner,\r\nwho was not a great walker, could go no farther, and thought only of\r\nreturning to the carriage as quickly as possible. Her niece was,\r\ntherefore, obliged to submit, and they took their way towards the house\r\non the opposite side of the river, in the nearest direction; but their\r\nprogress was slow, for Mr. Gardiner, though seldom able to indulge the\r\ntaste, was very fond of fishing, and was so much engaged in watching the\r\noccasional appearance of some trout in the water, and talking to the man\r\nabout them, that he advanced but little."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJRRD3TNE5A6AKAVXSRFT9RC","peer_label":"pride-and-prejudice","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJRRC2C7K6XERRJES8143XGV","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJRREZKG263C7SQSDV3TZ5MX","peer_label":"elizabeth bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZJBEM6MWHW485H9DS9F","peer_label":"mr darcy","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREYSZYA9P29KKXYZVTJ15","peer_label":"mr gardiner","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZH1WA49EQP66J0ZHR6G","peer_label":"derbyshire","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"county","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREYSAZT646RSHT9C5XPKR","peer_label":"mrs gardiner","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF0PZ89F3YPMWWEB39BQP","peer_label":"mrs reynolds","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF0P8S39N73TZRDCWCV93","peer_label":"pemberley house","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"estate","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF0V8XAN03MA6BP48FJFW","peer_label":"gardener pemberley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF0TVAJXHRKBC46241BRT","peer_label":"pemberley gallery","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"room","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF0VGMTTKPRSDMPY969CW","peer_label":"longbourn","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"place","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF0QZJS5RTAN0J7RNEYCT","peer_label":"mr darcy father","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF153TPWJAW8CQK8BJTFG","peer_label":"rosings park","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"estate","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF1EV1VFTPGZNQRV54PTQ","peer_label":"pemberley park grounds","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"location","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF1FJ53TT2WAD3N727RZF","peer_label":"fishing","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"entity","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF1EFF0ZTYMXEKA2JCZMC","peer_label":"pemberley river","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"water_body","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:36.266Z"}}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:01.317Z","ts":"2026-03-03T02:29:37.157Z","edited_by":{"method":"system","user_id":"01KJ60XQBHJ0GBGTP9X8HXAPPM"}}