the carriage;and when it drove off,Elizabeth saw him walking slowly towards the house.
The observations of her uncle and aunt now began;and each of them pronounced him to be infinitely superior to anything they had expected.
“He is perfectly well behaved,polite,and unassuming,”said her uncle.
“There is something a little stately in him,to be sure,”replied her aunt,“but it is fio his air,and is not unbing.I ow say with the housekeeper,that though some people may call him proud,I have seen nothing of it.”
“I was never more surprised than by his behaviour to us.It was more than civil;it was really attentive;and there was no y for such attention. His acquaintah Elizabeth was very trifling.”
“To be sure, Lizzy,”said her aunt,“he is not so handsome as Wickham;or,rather,he has not Wickham's tenance,for his features are perfectly good.But how came you to tell us that he was so disagreeable?”
Elizabeth excused herself as well as she could;said that she had liked him better when they met ihan before,and that she had never seen him so pleasant as this m.
“But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities,”replied her uncle.“Yreat men often are;and therefore I shall not take him at his word about fishing, as he might ge his mind another day,and warn me off his grounds.”
Elizabeth felt that they had entirely mistaken his character,but said nothing.
“From what we have seen of him,”tinued Mrs. Gardiner,“I really s
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