Jane Austen
after her reaching Pemberley; and was consequently resolved not to be out of sight of the
inn the whole of that morning. But her conclusion was false; for on the very morning after
their arrival at Lambton, these visitors came. They had been walking about the place with
some of their new friends, and were just returning to the inn to dress themselves for dining
with the same family, when the sound of a carriage drew them to a window, and they saw a
gentleman and a lady in a curricle driving up the street. Elizabeth immediately recognizing
the livery, guessed what it meant, and imparted no small degree of her surprise to her
relations by acquainting them with the honour which she expected. Her uncle and aunt were
all amazement; and the embarrassment of her manner as she spoke, joined to the
circumstance itself, and many of the circumstances of the preceding day, opened to them a
new idea on the business. Nothing had ever suggested it before, but they felt that there was
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