Jane Austen
Darcy might have been doing to
forward her sister's match, which she had feared to encourage as an exertion of goodness
too great to be probable, and at the same time dreaded to be just, from the pain of
obligation, were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true! He had followed them
purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on
such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must
abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with,
persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very
name it was punishment to him to pronounce. He had done all this for a girl whom he could
neither regard nor esteem. Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. But it was a
hope shortly checked by other considerations, and she soon felt that even her vanity was
annaabi.ee 
