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"I have been making the tour of the park," he replied, "as I

generally do every year, and intended to close it with a call at

the Parsonage. Are you going much farther?"

"No, I should have turned in a moment."

And accordingly she did turn, and they walked towards the

Parsonage together.

"Do you certainly leave Kent on Saturday?" said she.

"Yes--if Darcy does not put it off again. But I am at his

disposal. He arranges the business just as he pleases."

"And if not able to please himself in the arrangement, he has at

least great pleasure in the power of choice. I do not know

anybody who seems more to enjoy the power of doing what he likes

than Mr. Darcy."

"He likes to have his own way very well," replied Colonel

Fitzwilliam. "But so we all do. It is only that he has better

means of having it than many others, because he is rich, and many

others are poor. I speak feelingly. A younger son, you know, must

be inured to self-denial and dependence."