Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Pride and Prejudice
- Pride and Prejudice: Volume I
- Pride and Prejudice: Volume II
- Pride and Prejudice: Volume III
- Corrections and Emendations to 1813 text
- Appendix 1 Thomas Egerton and the Publication History
- Appendix 2 Legal and Military Background
- Appendix 3 Pemberley and its Models
- Appendix 4 Note on the second and third editions of Pride and Prejudice
- Abbreviations
- Explanatory Notes
Chapter 11
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Pride and Prejudice
- Pride and Prejudice: Volume I
- Pride and Prejudice: Volume II
- Pride and Prejudice: Volume III
- Corrections and Emendations to 1813 text
- Appendix 1 Thomas Egerton and the Publication History
- Appendix 2 Legal and Military Background
- Appendix 3 Pemberley and its Models
- Appendix 4 Note on the second and third editions of Pride and Prejudice
- Abbreviations
- Explanatory Notes
Summary
WHEN they were gone, Elizabeth, as if intending to exasperate herself as much as possible against Mr. Darcy, chose for her employment the examination of all the letters which Jane had written to her since her being in Kent. They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering. But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterize her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself, and kindly disposed towards every one, had been scarcely ever clouded. Elizabeth noticed every sentence conveying the idea of uneasiness, with an attention which it had hardly received on the first perusal. Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings. It was some consolation to think that his visit to Rosings was to end on the day after the next, and a still greater, that in less than a fortnight she should herself be with Jane again, and enabled to contribute to the recovery of her spirits, by all that affection could do.
She could not think of Darcy's leaving Kent, without remembering that his cousin was to go with him; but Colonel Fitzwilliam had made it clear that he had no intentions at all, and agreeable as he was, she did not mean to be unhappy about him.
While settling this point, she was suddenly roused by the sound of the door bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself, who had once before called late in the evening, and might now come to enquire particularly after her. But this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently affected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr. Darcy walk into the room. In an hurried manner he immediately began an enquiry after her health, imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better. She answered him with cold civility.
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- Pride and Prejudice , pp. 210 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006