“I should be sorry indeed, if it were. We were always good friends;and now we are better.”
“I do not know.Mrs.Bennet and Lydia are going in the carriage to Meryton.And so, my dear sister, I find, from our uncle and aunt,that you have actually seen Pemberley.”
“I was surprised to see Darcy in town last month.We passed each other several times.I wonder what he can be doing there.”
“I have heard,indeed,that she is uncommonly improved within this year or two.When I last saw her,she was not very promising. I am very glad you liked her.I hope she will turn out well.”
“I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palatable to you as it seems to be at present;that you actually declared your resolution of never taking orders,and that the business had been compromised accordingly.”
“You have.Yes,there was something in that;I told you so from the first,you may remember.”
“You did! and it was not wholly without foundation.You may remember what I told you on that point,when first we talked of it.”
“Undoubtedly.Did you see him while you were at Lambton?I thought I understood from the Gardiners that you had.”
“I dare say she will;she has got over the most trying age.”
“I have heard from authority, which I thought as good, that it was left you conditionally only,and at the will of the present patron.”