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Elizabeth could not repress a smile at this, but she answered

only by a slight inclination of the head. She saw that he wanted

to engage her on the old subject of his grievances, and she was

in no humour to indulge him. The rest of the evening passed with

the appearance, on his side, of usual cheerfulness, but with no

further attempt to distinguish Elizabeth; and they parted at last

with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never

meeting again.