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"I shall not say that you are mistaken," he replied, "because you

could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming

you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough

to know, that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing

opinions which, in fact, are not your own."

Elizabeth laughed heartily at this picture of herself, and said

to Colonel Fitzwilliam, "Your cousin will give you a very pretty

notion of me, and teach you not to believe a word I say. I am

particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so well able to

expose my real character, in a part of the world where I had

hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit. Indeed, Mr.

Darcy, it is very ungenerous in you to mention all that you knew

to my disadvantage in Hertfordshire--and, give me leave to say,

very impolitic too--for it is provoking me to retaliate, and such

things may come out as will shock your relations to hear."

"I am not afraid of you," said he, smilingly.