Jane Austen
Darcy; and you yourself, when last at Longbourn, heard in what manner
he spoke of the man who had behaved with such forbearance and liberality towards him.
And there are other circumstances which I am not at liberty--which it is not worth while to
relate; but his lies about the whole Pemberley family are endless. From what he said of Miss
Darcy I was thoroughly prepared to see a proud, reserved, disagreeable girl. Yet he knew to
the contrary himself. He must know that she was as amiable and unpretending as we have
found her."
"But does Lydia know nothing of this? can she be ignorant of what you and Jane seem so
well to understand?"
"Oh, yes!--that, that is the worst of all. Till I was in Kent, and saw so much both of Mr.
Darcy and his relation Colonel Fitzwilliam, I was ignorant of the truth myself. And when I
returned home, the ----shire was to leave Meryton in a week or fortnight's time. As that
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