saturday and though they were at one time left by for half an hour he most to his book and would not even look at her on sunday after morning service the separation so agreeable to almost all took place miss bin y s civility to elizabeth increased at last very rapidly as well as affection for jane and when they parted after assuring the latter of the pleasure it would always give her to see her either at or and embracing hei most tenderly she even shook hands with the former elizabeth took leave of the whole party in the spirits they were not welcomed home very cordially by mother mrs wondered at their coming and thought them very wrong to give so much trouble and was sure jane would have caught cold again but their father though very in his expressions of pleasure was really glad to see them he had felt their importance in the family circle the evening conversation when they were all assembled had lost much of its animation and almost all its sense by the absence of jane and they found mary as usual deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature and had some new to admire and some new observations of thread bare mo to listen to and had information for them of a different sort much had been done and much had been said in the regiment since the preceding a j several of the officers had dined lately with their uncle a private had been and it had actually fe that a o i a � m d pride and prejudice chapter xiii i hope my dear said mr to his wife as they were at breakfast the next morning that you have ordered a good dinner to day because i have reason to expect an addition to our family party who do you mean my dear i know of nobody that is coming i am sure unless should happen to call in and i hope my dinners are good enough for her i do not believe she often sees such at home the person of whom i speak is a gentleman and a stranger mrs eyes sparkled a gentleman and a stranger it is mr i am sure why jane � you never dropped a word of this � you sly thing i well i am sure i shall be extremely glad to see mr but � good lord how unlucky there is not a bit of fish to be got to day my love ring the bell i must speak to hill this moment it is not mr said her husband it is a person whom i never saw in the whole course of my life this roused a general astonishment and he had the pleasure of being eagerly questioned by his wife and five daughters at once after amusing himself some time with their curiosity he thus explained � about a month ago i received this letter and about a fortnight ago i answered it for thought it a case of some delicacy and requiring early attention it is from my cousin mr who when i am dead may turn you all out of this house as soon as he pleases oh my dear cried his wife i cannot bear to hear that mentioned pray do not talk of that odious man i do think it is the hardest thing in the world that your estate should be away from your own children and i am sure if i had been you i should have u w j o to do something or other about it jane and attempted to ex am lo e pride and prejudice nature of an they had often attempted it before but it was a subject on mrs was beyond the reach of reason and continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters in favour of a man whom nobody cared any thing about it certainly is a most affair said mr and nothing can clear mr from the guilt of but if you will listen to his letter you may perhaps be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself no that i am sure i shall not and i think it was very impertinent of him to write to you at all and very i hate such false friends why could no he keep on quarrelling with you as his father did before him why indeed he does seem to have had some filial scruples on that head as you will hear near th october dear sir the between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness and since i have had the misfortune to lose him i have frequently wished to heal the breach but for some time i was kept back by my own doubts fearing lest it might seem to his memory for me to be on good terms with any one whom it had always pleased him to be at � there mrs � my mind however is now made up on the subject for having received at i have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the right able lady de widow of sir de whose and has preferred me to the valuable of this parish where it shall be my earnest endeavour to myself with grateful respect towards her and he ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are by the church of england as clergyman e to promote and establish the blessing oi e ic � j i� pride and prejudice within the reach of my influence and on these grounds i flatter myself that my present of good wi l are highly and that the circumstance of my next in the of estate will he kindly overlooked on your side and not lead you to reject the offered olive i 