{"id":"01KJRRE0SM2T3S7QHHGSACV8SE","cid":"bafkreic3k3eyysfi5iucghpipmolsjg77a4hn6hp2ihmce5qviqczqknmy","type":"text_chunk","properties":{"char_end":648662,"char_start":640681,"chunk_index":90,"chunk_total":108,"estimated_tokens":1996,"label":"make thirteen with ourselves, so there will be jus","source_file_key":"pride-and-prejudice","text":"make thirteen with ourselves, so there will be just room at table for\r\nhim.”\r\n\r\nConsoled by this resolution, she was the better able to bear her\r\nhusband’s incivility; though it was very mortifying to know that her\r\nneighbours might all see Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before\r\n_they_ did. As the day of his arrival drew near,--\r\n\r\n“I begin to be sorry that he comes at all,” said Jane to her sister. “It\r\nwould be nothing; I could see him with perfect indifference; but I can\r\nhardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of. My mother means well;\r\nbut she does not know, no one can know, how much I suffer from what she\r\nsays. Happy shall I be when his stay at Netherfield is over!”\r\n\r\n“I wish I could say anything to comfort you,” replied Elizabeth; “but it\r\nis wholly out of my power. You must feel it; and the usual satisfaction\r\nof preaching patience to a sufferer is denied me, because you have\r\nalways so much.”\r\n\r\nMr. Bingley arrived. Mrs. Bennet, through the assistance of servants,\r\ncontrived to have the earliest tidings of it, that the period of anxiety\r\nand fretfulness on her side be as long as it could. She counted the days\r\nthat must intervene before their invitation could be sent--hopeless of\r\nseeing him before. But on the third morning after his arrival in\r\nHertfordshire, she saw him from her dressing-room window enter the\r\npaddock, and ride towards the house.\r\n\r\nHer daughters were eagerly called to partake of her joy. Jane resolutely\r\nkept her place at the table; but Elizabeth, to satisfy her mother, went\r\nto the window--she looked--she saw Mr. Darcy with him, and sat down\r\nagain by her sister.\r\n\r\n“There is a gentleman with him, mamma,” said Kitty; “who can it be?”\r\n\r\n“Some acquaintance or other, my dear, I suppose; I am sure I do not\r\nknow.”\r\n\r\n“La!” replied Kitty, “it looks just like that man that used to be with\r\nhim before. Mr. what’s his name--that tall, proud man.”\r\n\r\n“Good gracious! Mr. Darcy!--and so it does, I vow. Well, any friend of\r\nMr. Bingley’s will always be welcome here, to be sure; but else I must\r\nsay that I hate the very sight of him.”\r\n\r\nJane looked at Elizabeth with surprise and concern. She knew but little\r\nof their meeting in Derbyshire, and therefore felt for the awkwardness\r\nwhich must attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time\r\nafter receiving his explanatory letter. Both sisters were uncomfortable\r\nenough. Each felt for the other, and of course for themselves; and their\r\nmother talked on of her dislike of Mr. Darcy, and her resolution to be\r\ncivil to him only as Mr. Bingley’s friend, without being heard by either\r\nof them. But Elizabeth had sources of uneasiness which could not yet be\r\nsuspected by Jane, to whom she had never yet had courage to show Mrs.\r\nGardiner’s letter, or to relate her own change of sentiment towards\r\nhim. To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused,\r\nand whose merits she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive\r\ninformation, he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted\r\nfor the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an\r\ninterest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as\r\nwhat Jane felt for Bingley. Her astonishment at his coming--at his\r\ncoming to Netherfield, to Longbourn, and voluntarily seeking her again,\r\nwas almost equal to what she had known on first witnessing his altered\r\nbehaviour in Derbyshire.\r\n\r\nThe colour which had been driven from her face returned for half a\r\nminute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to\r\nher eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and\r\nwishes must still be unshaken; but she would not be secure.\r\n\r\n“Let me first see how he behaves,” said she; “it will then be early\r\nenough for expectation.”\r\n\r\nShe sat intently at work, striving to be composed, and without daring to\r\nlift up her eyes, till anxious curiosity carried them to the face of her\r\nsister as the servant was approaching the door. Jane looked a little\r\npaler than usual, but more sedate than Elizabeth had expected. On the\r\ngentlemen’s appearing, her colour increased; yet she received them with\r\ntolerable ease, and with a propriety of behaviour equally free from any\r\nsymptom of resentment, or any unnecessary complaisance.\r\n\r\nElizabeth said as little to either as civility would allow, and sat down\r\nagain to her work, with an eagerness which it did not often command. She\r\nhad ventured only one glance at Darcy. He looked serious as usual; and,\r\nshe thought, more as he had been used to look in Hertfordshire, than as\r\nshe had seen him at Pemberley. But, perhaps, he could not in her\r\nmother’s presence be what he was before her uncle and aunt. It was a\r\npainful, but not an improbable, conjecture.\r\n\r\nBingley she had likewise seen for an instant, and in that short period\r\nsaw him looking both pleased and embarrassed. He was received by Mrs.\r\nBennet with a degree of civility which made her two daughters ashamed,\r\nespecially when contrasted with the cold and ceremonious politeness of\r\nher courtesy and address of his friend.\r\n\r\nElizabeth particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latter the\r\npreservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was\r\nhurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill\r\napplied.\r\n\r\nDarcy, after inquiring of her how Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner did--a question\r\nwhich she could not answer without confusion--said scarcely anything. He\r\nwas not seated by her: perhaps that was the reason of his silence; but\r\nit had not been so in Derbyshire. There he had talked to her friends\r\nwhen he could not to herself. But now several minutes elapsed, without\r\nbringing the sound of his voice; and when occasionally, unable to resist\r\nthe impulse of curiosity, she raised her eyes to his face, she as often\r\nfound him looking at Jane as at herself, and frequently on no object but\r\nthe ground. More thoughtfulness and less anxiety to please, than when\r\nthey last met, were plainly expressed. She was disappointed, and angry\r\nwith herself for being so.\r\n\r\n“Could I expect it to be otherwise?” said she. “Yet why did he come?”\r\n\r\nShe was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to\r\nhim she had hardly courage to speak.\r\n\r\nShe inquired after his sister, but could do no more.\r\n\r\n“It is a long time, Mr. Bingley, since you went away,” said Mrs. Bennet.\r\n\r\nHe readily agreed to it.\r\n\r\n“I began to be afraid you would never come back again. People _did_ say,\r\nyou meant to quit the place entirely at Michaelmas; but, however, I hope\r\nit is not true. A great many changes have happened in the neighbourhood\r\nsince you went away. Miss Lucas is married and settled: and one of my\r\nown daughters. I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have\r\nseen it in the papers. It was in the ‘Times’ and the ‘Courier,’ I know;\r\nthough it was not put in as it ought to be. It was only said, ‘Lately,\r\nGeorge Wickham, Esq., to Miss Lydia Bennet,’ without there being a\r\nsyllable said of her father, or the place where she lived, or anything.\r\nIt was my brother Gardiner’s drawing up, too, and I wonder how he came\r\nto make such an awkward business of it. Did you see it?”\r\n\r\nBingley replied that he did, and made his congratulations. Elizabeth\r\ndared not lift up her eyes. How Mr. Darcy looked, therefore, she could\r\nnot tell.\r\n\r\n“It is a delightful thing, to be sure, to have a daughter well married,”\r\ncontinued her mother; “but at the same time, Mr. Bingley, it is very\r\nhard to have her taken away from me. They are gone down to Newcastle, a\r\nplace quite northward it seems, and there they are to stay, I do not\r\nknow how long. His regiment is there; for I suppose you have heard of\r\nhis leaving the ----shire, and of his being gone into the Regulars.\r\nThank heaven! he has _some_ friends, though, perhaps, not so many as he\r\ndeserves.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth, who knew this to be levelled at Mr. Darcy, was in such misery\r\nof shame that she could hardly keep her seat."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJRRD3TNE5A6AKAVXSRFT9RC","peer_label":"pride-and-prejudice","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJRRC2C7K6XERRJES8143XGV","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJRREZGM87R12EADFF6YZZG3","peer_label":"jane bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:44.755Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREYT564P5405ZE4Q76ZF5","peer_label":"mrs bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:44.755Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREY5SSJCQ67QYG0XTG9A8","peer_label":"mr 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