Jane Austen
of her former pleasures, every idea gave way to the charm of recollection; and she was too
much engaged in pointing out to her husband all the interesting spots in its environs to think
of anything else. Fatigued as she had been by the morning's walk they had no sooner dined
than she set off again in quest of her former acquaintance, and the evening was spent in the
satisfactions of a intercourse renewed after many years' discontinuance.
The occurrences of the day were too full of interest to leave Elizabeth much attention for
any of these new friends; and she could do nothing but think, and think with wonder, of Mr.
Darcy's civility, and, above all, of his wishing her to be acquainted with his sister.
Chapter 44
Elizabeth had settled it that Mr. Darcy would bring his sister to visit her the very day