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Elizabeth's collected behaviour, however, soon quieted his

emotion; and as Miss Bingley, vexed and disappointed, dared not

approach nearer to Wickham, Georgiana also recovered in time,

though not enough to be able to speak any more. Her brother,

whose eye she feared to meet, scarcely recollected her interest

in the affair; and the very circumstance which had been designed

to turn his thoughts from Elizabeth, seemed to have fixed them on

her more and more cheerfully.