Jane Austen
peace equally wounded.
A day or two passed before Jane had courage to speak of her feelings to Elizabeth; but at
last, on Mrs. Bennet's leaving them together, after a longer irritation than usual about
Netherfield and its master, she could not help saying:
"Oh, that my dear mother had more command over herself! She can have no idea of the
pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him. But I will not repine. It cannot last
long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before."
Elizabeth looked at her sister with incredulous solicitude, but said nothing.
"You doubt me," cried Jane, slightly colouring; "indeed, you have no reason. He may live
in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. I have nothing
either to hope or fear, and nothing to reproach him with. Thank God! I have not that pain. A
little time, therefore--I shall certainly try to get the better
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