Jane Austen
letter in your hands in the course of the morning. I will only add, God bless you.
"FITZWILLIAM DARCY"
Chapter 36
If Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did not expect it to contain a renewal of
his offers, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents. But such as they were, it may
well be supposed how eagerly she went through them, and what a contrariety of emotion
they excited. Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined. With amazement did she
first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she
persuaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not
conceal. With a strong prejudice against everything he might say, she began his account of
what had happened at Netherfield. She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power
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