Jane Austen
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gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in no cheerful humour.
Mr. Darcy was almost as far from her as the table could divide them. He was on one side of
her mother. She knew how little such a situation would give pleasure to either, or make
either appear to advantage. She was not near enough to hear any of their discourse, but she
could see how seldom they spoke to each other, and how formal and cold was their manner
whenever they did. Her mother's ungraciousness, made the sense of what they owed him
more painful to Elizabeth's mind; and she would, at times, have given anything to be
privileged to tell him that his kindness was neither unknown nor unfelt by the whole of the
family.
She was in hopes that the evening would afford some opportunity of bringing them
together; that the whole of the visit would not pass away without enabling them to enter into
something more of conversation than the mere ceremonious salutation attending his
entrance
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