Jane Austen
impartiality--deliberated on the probability of each statement--but with little success. On
both sides it was only assertion. Again she read on; but every line proved more clearly that
the affair, which she had believed it impossible that any contrivance could so represent as to
render Mr. Darcy's conduct in it less than infamous, was capable of a turn which must make
him entirely blameless throughout the whole.
The extravagance and general profligacy which he scrupled not to lay at Mr. Wickham's
charge, exceedingly shocked her; the more so, as she could bring no proof of its injustice.
She had never heard of him before his entrance into the ----shire Militia, in which he had
engaged at the persuasion of the young man who, on meeting him accidentally in town, had
there renewed a slight acquaintance. Of his former way of life nothing had been known in
Hertfordshire but what he told himself
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