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"Good gracious! Mr. Darcy!--and so it does, I vow. Well, any

friend of Mr. Bingley's will always be welcome here, to be sure;

but else I must say that I hate the very sight of him."

Jane looked at Elizabeth with surprise and concern. She knew but

little of their meeting in Derbyshire, and therefore felt for the

awkwardness which must attend her sister, in seeing him almost

for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter. Both

sisters were uncomfortable enough. Each felt for the other, and

of course for themselves; and their mother talked on of her

dislike of Mr. Darcy, and her resolution to be civil to him only

as Mr. Bingley's friend, without being heard by either of them.

But Elizabeth had sources of uneasiness which could not yet be

suspected by Jane, to whom she had never yet had courage to show

Mrs. Gardiner's letter, or to relate her own change of sentiment

towards him.