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Welcome to Jane Austen Stories. I'm Julie Andrews and from the Noisa Podcast Network. This is Pride and prejudice, part 18. Last time Elizabeth explored Mr. Darcy's home and uncovered surprises. Surprising things as she went. While wandering through the opulent rooms and picturesque grounds of the Pemberley Estate, Lizzie found her mind wandering too. She began to imagine what it would be like to be the lady of such a place. Her meeting with the housekeeper was particularly revealing. She had nothing but kind things to say about her master. Mr. Darcy, a man of good character and generosity. And when the man himself arrived home, he continued to charm. Making Elizabeth's aunt and uncle feel welcome and at ease. And spending time with Lizzie, walking around the estate's stunning scenery. It seems she really did misjudge him. But what do these new feelings mean for Elizabeth? Does Mr. Darcy still long for her? And why is he so eager for her to meet his sister? Now we rejoin Lizzie at the local inn where she's staying with her aunt and uncle. They're about to receive some visitors they did not expect. From the Noiza Podcast network. This is Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 44. Elizabeth had settled it that Mr. Darcy would bring his sister to visit her. The very day after her reaching Pemberley, and was consequently resolved not to be out of sight of the inn the whole of that morning. But her conclusion was false, for on the very morning after their own arrival at Lambton, these visitors came. They had been walking about the place with some of their new friends, and were just returned to the inn to dress themselves for dining with the same family, when the sound of a carriage drew them to a window, and they saw a gentleman and lady in a curricle driving up the street. Elizabeth, immediately recognizing the livery, guessed what it meant, and imparted no small degree of surprise to her relations by acquainting them with the honour which she expected. Her uncle and aunt were all amazement, and the embarrassment of her manner as she spoke joined to the circumstance itself, and many of the circumstances of the preceding day opened to them a new idea on the business. Nothing had suggested it before, but they now felt that there was no other way of accounting for such attentions from such a quarter as than by supposing a partiality for their niece. While these newly born notions were passing in their heads, the perturbation of Elizabeth's feelings was every moment increasing. She was quite amazed at her own discomposure, but amongst other causes of disquiet, she dreaded lest the partiality of the brother should have said to too much in her favour, and more than commonly anxious to please, she naturally suspected that every power of pleasing would fail her. She retreated from the window, fearful of being seen, and as she walked up and down the room, endeavouring to compose herself, saw such looks of inquiring surprise in her uncle and aunt, as made everything worse. Miss Darcy and her brother appeared, and this formidable introduction took place with astonishment. Did Elizabeth see that her new acquaintance was at least as much embarrassed as herself? Since her being at Lambton, she had heard that Miss Darcy was exceedingly proud, but the observation of a very few minutes convinced her that she was only exceedingly shy. She found it difficult to obtain even a word from her beyond a monosyllable. Miss Darcy was tall and on a larger scale than Elizabeth, and though little more than 16, her figure was formed and her appearance womanly and graceful. She was less handsome than her brother, but there was sense and good humour in her face, and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle. Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an Observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been, was much relieved by discerning such different feelings. They had not been long together before Darcy told her that Mr. Bingley was also coming to wait on her, and she had barely time to express her satisfaction and prepare for such a visitor, when Bingley's quick step was heard on the stairs, and in a moment he entered the room. All Elizabeth's anger against him had been long done away, but had she still felt any, it could hardly have stood its ground against the unaffected cordiality with which he expressed himself. On seeing her again, he inquired in a friendly, though general way after her family, and looked and spoke with the same good humoured ease that he had ever done to Mr. And Mrs. Gardiner. He was scarcely a less interesting personage than to herself. They had long wished to see him. The whole party before them indeed excited a lively attention. The suspicions which had just arisen of Mr. Darcy and their niece directed their observation towards each with an earnest, though guarded inquiry. And they soon drew from these inquiries the full conviction that one of them at least knew what it was to love. Of Elizabeth's sensations they remained a little in doubt, but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough. Elizabeth on her side had much to do. She wanted to ascertain the feelings of each of her visitors. She wanted to compose her own and to make herself agreeable to all. And in the latter object, where she feared most to fail, she was most sure of success, for those to whom she endeavoured to give pleasure were prepossessed in her favour. Bingley was ready, Georgiana was eager, and Darcy determined to be pleased. In seeing Bingley, her thoughts naturally flew to her sister, and, oh, how ardently did she long to know whether any of his were directed in a like manner. Sometimes she could fancy that he talked less than on former occasions, and once or twice pleased herself with the notion that as he looked at her, he was trying to trace a resemblance. But though this might be imaginary, she could not be deceived as to his behaviour. To Miss Darcy, who had been set up as a rival to Jane, no look appeared on either side that spoke particular. Regardless, nothing occurred between them that could justify the hopes of his sister. On this point she was soon satisfied, and two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation denoted a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her had he dared, He observed to her at a moment when the others were talking together, and in a tone which had something of real regret, that it was a very long time since he had the pleasure of seeing her, and before she could reply, he added, it is above eight months we have not met since the 26th of November, when we were all dancing together at Netherfield. Elizabeth was pleased to find his memory so exact, and he afterwards took occasion to ask her, when unattended to by any of the rest, whether all her sisters were at Longbourn. There was not much in the question, nor in the preceding remark, but there was a look at and a manner which gave them meaning. It was not often that she could turn her eyes on Mr. Darcy himself, but whenever she did catch a glimpse, she saw an expression of general complacence. And in all that he said, she heard an accent so far removed from hauteur or disdain of his companions, that as convinced her that the improvement of manners which she had yesterday witnessed, however temporary its existence might prove, had at least outlived one day. When she saw him thus seeking the acquaintance and courting the good opinion of people with whom any intercourse a few months ago would have been a disgrace, when she saw him thus civil not only to herself, but to the very relations whom he had openly disdained and recollected their last lively scene in Hunsford Parsonage. The difference, the change, was so great and struck so forcibly on her mind, that she could hardly restrain her astonishment from being visible. Never even in the company of his dear friends at Netherfield or his dignified relations at Rosings, had she seen him so desirous to please, so free from self consequence or unbending reserve, as now, when no importance could result from the success of his endeavours, and when even the acquaintance of those to whom his attentions were addressed would draw down the ridicule and censure of the ladies, both of Netherfield and Rosings. Foreign.
