Jane Austen
gone to enjoy himself in London or Bath; and with the Bingleys they both of them
frequently staid so long, that even Bingley's good humour was overcome, and he proceeded
so far as to talk of giving them a hint to be gone.
Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy's marriage; but as she thought it
advisable to retain the right of visiting at Pemberley, she dropt all her resentment; was
fonder than ever of Georgiana, almost as attentive to Darcy as heretofore, and paid off every
arrear of civility to Elizabeth.
Pemberley was now Georgiana's home; and the attachment of the sisters was exactly
what Darcy had hoped to see. They were able to love each other even as well as they
intended. Georgiana had the highest opinion in the world of Elizabeth; though at first she
often listened with an astonishment bordering on alarm at her lively, sportive, manner of
talking to her brother. He, who had always inspired in herself a respect which almost