Jane Austen
influence her. We live in so different a part of town, all our connections are so different,
and, as you well know, we go out so little, that it is very improbable that they should meet
at all, unless he really comes to see her."
"And that is quite impossible; for he is now in the custody of his friend, and Mr. Darcy
would no more suffer him to call on Jane in such a part of London! My dear aunt, how
could you think of it? Mr. Darcy may perhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch
Street, but he would hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from its
impurities, were he once to enter it; and depend upon it, Mr. Bingley never stirs without
him."
"So much the better. I hope they will not meet at all. But does not Jane correspond with
his sister? She will not be able to help calling."
"She will drop the acquaintance entirely."
But in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place this point, as well as the
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