off her gravity i am trying to make it out and what is your success she shook her head i do not get on at all i hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly i can readily believe answered he gravely that reports may vary greatly with respect to me and i could wish miss tliat you were not to sketch my character at the present moment as there is reason to fear that the performance would reflect no credit on either but if i do not take your likeness now i may never have another opportunity i would by no means end any pleasure of yours he coldly replied she said no more and they went down the other dance and parted in silence on each side dissatisfied though not to an equal degree for in s breast there was a tolerable powerful feeling towards her which soon procured her pardon and directed all his anger against another they had not long separated when miss came towards her and with an expression of civil disdain thus her � so miss i hear you are quite delighted with george you r pride and prejudice sister has been talking to me about him and asking me a thousand questions and i find that the young man forgot to tell you among his other communications that he was the son of old the late mr s steward let me recommend you however as a friend not to give confidence to all his for as to mr s using him ill it is perfectly false for on the contrary he has been always remarkably kind to him though george has treated mr in a most infamous manner i do not know the particulars but i know very well that mr is not in the least to blame that he cannot bear to hear george mentioned and that though my brother thought he could not well avoid including him in his invitation to the officers he was excessively glad to find that he had taken himself out of the way his coming into the country at all is a most insolent thing indeed and i wonder how he could presume to do it i pity you miss for this discovery of your favourite s guilt but really considering his descent one could not expect much better his guilt and his descent appear by your account to be the same said angrily for i have heard you accuse him of nothing worse than of being the son of mr s steward and of i can assure you he informed me himself i beg your pardon replied miss turning away with a sneer excuse my interference it was kindly meant insolent girl said elizabeth to herself you are much mistaken if you expect to influence me by such a paltry attack as this i see nothing in it but your own wilful ignorance and the malice of mr she then sought her eldest sister who had undertaken to make inquiries on the same subject of in jane met her with a smile of such sweet pride and prejudice a glow of such happy as sufficiently marked how well she was satisfied with the of the elizabeth instantly read her feelings and at that moment solicitude for resentment against his enemies and everything else gave way before the hope of jane s being in the fairest way for happiness i want to know said she with a countenance no less smiling than her sister s what you have learnt about mr but perhaps you have been too engaged to think of any third person in which case you may be sure of my pardon no replied jane i have not forgotten him but i have nothing to tell you mr does not know the whole of his history and is quite ignorant of the circumstances which have principally offended mr but he will for the good conduct the and honour of his and is that mr has deserved much less attention firom mr than he has received and i am sorry to say that by his account as well as his sister s mr is by no means a respectable young man i am afraid he has been very and has deserved to lose mr s regard mr does not know mr himself no he never saw him till the other morning at this account then is what he has received mr i am satisfied but what does he say of the living he does not recollect the circumstances though he has heard them from mr more than once but he believes that it was left to him only pride and prejudice i have not a doubt of mr s sincerity said elizabeth warmly but you must excuse my not being convinced by assurances only mr s defence of his friend was a very able one i dare say but since he is with several parts of the story and has learnt the rest from that friend himself i shall venture still to think of both as i did before she then changed the discourse to one more gratifying to each and on which could be no difference of sentiment elizabeth listened with delight to the happy though modest hopes which jane entertained of s regard and said all in her power to her confidence in it on their being joined by mr himself to miss to whose inquiry after the of her last partner she had scarcely replied before mr came up to them and told her with great exultation that he had just been so fortunate as to make a most important discovery i have found out said he by a singular accident that there is now in the room a near relation of my i happened to the himself mentioning to the young lady who does the honours of this house the names of his cousin miss de and of her 