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A; but, with many expressions of concern, he confessed himself engaged elsewhere.
;and if she would give him leave,would take an early opportunity of waiting on them.
“Can you e to-morrow?”
Yes, he had no engagement at all for to-morrow; and her invitation was accepted with alacrity.
He came,and innd with her hair half finisas we can,”said Jane;“but I dare say Kitty is forwarder than either of us,for she went upstairs half an hour ago.”
“Oh!hang Kitty!what has she to do with it?Come be quick,be quick!Where is your sash,my dear?”
But when her mother was gone,Jane would not be prevailed on to go down without one of her sisters.
The same anxiking and winking at Elizabeth and Catherine ;and when at last Kitty did,she very innocently said,“What is the matter mamma?What do you keep winking at me for?What am; but unable to waste such a precious occasion,she suddenly got up,and saying to Kitty,“Come ss at such pt:
“Lizzy,my dear,I want to speak with you.”
Elizabeth was forced to go.
“We may as well leave them by themselves you know;
Elizabeth made no attempt to reason with her mother, but remained quietly in the hall,till she and Kitty wereery thingn to their evening party;and he bore with the ill-judged officiousness of the mother,and heard all her silly remarks with a forbearance and mand of countenance particularly grateful to the daughter.
He scarcely needed an invitation to stay supper;and before he wentsband.
;but Elizabeth went to bed in tfelt tolerably persuaded that all this must have taken place with that gentleman"s concurrence.
Bingley was punctual to his appointment;d provoke his ridicule,or disgust him into silence;and he was more ;mm for that purpose soon after tea;for as the others were all going to sit down to cards,she could not be wanted to counteract her mother"s schemes.
But on returning to the drawing-room, when her letter was finished,she saw,to her infinite surprise,there wasng together over the hearth,as if engaged in earnest conversation;and had this led to no suspicion, the faces of both, as they hastily turned;;and Elizabeth was on the point of going away again,when Bingley,who as well as the other had sat down,suddenly rose,and whispering a few words to her sister,ran out of the room.
Jane could have no reserves from Elizabeth,where confidence would give pleasure;and instantly embracing her,acknowledged, with the liveliest emotion,that she was the happiest creature in the world.
ations were given with a sinchalf that remained to be said for the present.
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