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Anxious and\r\nuneasy, the period which passed in the drawing-room before the gentlemen\r\ncame, was wearisome and dull to a degree that almost made her uncivil.\r\nShe looked forward to their entrance as the point on which all her\r\nchance of pleasure for the evening must depend.\r\n\r\n“If he does not come to me, _then_,” said she, “I shall give him up for\r\never.”\r\n\r\nThe gentlemen came; and she thought he looked as if he would have\r\nanswered her hopes; but, alas! the ladies had crowded round the table,\r\nwhere Miss Bennet was making tea, and Elizabeth pouring out the coffee,\r\nin so close a confederacy, that there was not a single vacancy near her\r\nwhich would admit of a chair. And on the gentlemen’s approaching, one of\r\nthe girls moved closer to her than ever, and said, in a whisper,--\r\n\r\n“The men shan’t come and part us, I am determined. We want none of them;\r\ndo we?”\r\n\r\nDarcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with\r\nher eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough\r\nto help anybody to coffee, and then was enraged against herself for\r\nbeing so silly!\r\n\r\n“A man who has once been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough to\r\nexpect a renewal of his love? Is there one among the sex who would not\r\nprotest against such a weakness as a second proposal to the same woman?\r\nThere is no indignity so abhorrent to their feelings.”\r\n\r\nShe was a little revived, however, by his bringing back his coffee-cup\r\nhimself; and she seized the opportunity of saying,--\r\n\r\n“Is your sister at Pemberley still?”\r\n\r\n“Yes; she will remain there till Christmas.”\r\n\r\n“And quite alone? Have all her friends left her?”\r\n\r\n“Mrs. Annesley is with her. The others have been gone on to Scarborough\r\nthese three weeks.”\r\n\r\nShe could think of nothing more to say; but if he wished to converse\r\nwith her, he might have better success. He stood by her, however, for\r\nsome minutes, in silence; and, at last, on the young lady’s whispering\r\nto Elizabeth again, he walked away.\r\n\r\nWhen the tea things were removed, and the card tables placed, the ladies\r\nall rose; and Elizabeth was then hoping to be soon joined by him, when\r\nall her views were overthrown, by seeing him fall a victim to her\r\nmother’s rapacity for whist players, and in a few moments after seated\r\nwith the rest of the party. She now lost every expectation of pleasure.\r\nThey were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had\r\nnothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side\r\nof the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself.\r\n\r\nMrs. Bennet had designed to keep the two Netherfield gentlemen to\r\nsupper; but their carriage was, unluckily, ordered before any of the\r\nothers, and she had no opportunity of detaining them.\r\n\r\n“Well, girls,” said she, as soon as they were left to themselves, “what\r\nsay you to the day? I think everything has passed off uncommonly well, I\r\nassure you. The dinner was as well dressed as any I ever saw. The\r\nvenison was roasted to a turn--and everybody said, they never saw so fat\r\na haunch. The soup was fifty times better than what we had at the\r\nLucases’ last week; and even Mr. Darcy acknowledged that the partridges\r\nwere remarkably well done; and I suppose he has two or three French\r\ncooks at least. And, my dear Jane, I never saw you look in greater\r\nbeauty. Mrs. Long said so too, for I asked her whether you did not. And\r\nwhat do you think she said besides? ‘Ah! Mrs. Bennet, we shall have her\r\nat Netherfield at last!’ She did, indeed. I do think Mrs. Long is as\r\ngood a creature as ever lived--and her nieces are very pretty behaved\r\ngirls, and not at all handsome: I like them prodigiously.”\r\n\r\n[Illustration:\r\n\r\n     “M^{rs}. Long and her nieces.”\r\n]\r\n\r\nMrs. Bennet, in short, was in very great spirits: she had seen enough of\r\nBingley’s behaviour to Jane to be convinced that she would get him at\r\nlast; and her expectations of advantage to her family, when in a happy\r\nhumour, were so far beyond reason, that she was quite disappointed at\r\nnot seeing him there again the next day, to make his proposals.\r\n\r\n“It has been a very agreeable day,” said Miss Bennet to Elizabeth. “The\r\nparty seemed so well selected, so suitable one with the other. I hope we\r\nmay often meet again.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth smiled.\r\n\r\n“Lizzy, you must not do so. You must not suspect me. It mortifies me. I\r\nassure you that I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an\r\nagreeable and sensible young man without having a wish beyond it. I am\r\nperfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had\r\nany design of engaging my affection. It is only that he is blessed with\r\ngreater sweetness of address, and a stronger desire of generally\r\npleasing, than any other man.”\r\n\r\n“You are very cruel,” said her sister, “you will not let me smile, and\r\nare provoking me to it every moment.”\r\n\r\n“How hard it is in some cases to be believed! And how impossible in\r\nothers! But why should you wish to persuade me that I feel more than I\r\nacknowledge?”\r\n\r\n“That is a question which I hardly know how to answer. We all love to\r\ninstruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. Forgive\r\nme; and if you persist in indifference, do not make _me_ your\r\nconfidante.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration:\r\n\r\n     “Lizzy, my dear, I want to speak to you.”\r\n]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER LV.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration]\r\n\r\nA few days after this visit, Mr. Bingley called again, and alone. His\r\nfriend had left him that morning for London, but was to return home in\r\nten days’ time. He sat with them above an hour, and was in remarkably\r\ngood spirits. Mrs. Bennet invited him to dine with them; but, with many\r\nexpressions of concern, he confessed himself engaged elsewhere.\r\n\r\n“Next time you call,” said she, “I hope we shall be more lucky.”\r\n\r\nHe should be particularly happy at any time, etc., etc.; and if she\r\nwould give him leave, would take an early opportunity of waiting on\r\nthem.\r\n\r\n“Can you come to-morrow?”\r\n\r\nYes, he had no engagement at all for to-morrow; and her invitation was\r\naccepted with alacrity.\r\n\r\nHe came, and in such very good time, that the ladies were none of them\r\ndressed. In ran Mrs. Bennet to her daughters’ room, in her\r\ndressing-gown, and with her hair half finished, crying out,--\r\n\r\n“My dear Jane, make haste and hurry down. He is come--Mr. Bingley is\r\ncome. He is, indeed. Make haste, make haste. Here, Sarah, come to Miss\r\nBennet this moment, and help her on with her gown. Never mind Miss\r\nLizzy’s hair.”\r\n\r\n“We will be down as soon as we can,” said Jane; “but I dare say Kitty is\r\nforwarder than either of us, for she went upstairs half an hour ago.”\r\n\r\n“Oh! hang Kitty! what has she to do with it? Come, be quick, be quick!\r\nwhere is your sash, my dear?”\r\n\r\nBut when her mother was gone, Jane would not be prevailed on to go down\r\nwithout one of her sisters.\r\n\r\nThe same anxiety to get them by themselves was visible again in the\r\nevening. After tea, Mr. Bennet retired to the library, as was his\r\ncustom, and Mary went upstairs to her instrument. Two obstacles of the\r\nfive being thus removed, Mrs. Bennet sat looking and winking at\r\nElizabeth and Catherine for a considerable time, without making any\r\nimpression on them. Elizabeth would not observe her; and when at last\r\nKitty did, she very innocently said, “What is the matter, mamma? What do\r\nyou keep winking at me for? 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