hould not have thought that he could have behaved in so cruel a way by anybody as he has done by poor Wickham.He has not an ill-natured look.On the trary,there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks.And there is something of dignity in his tehat would not give one an unfavourable idea of his heart. But, to be sure, the gooddy who showed us his house did give him a most ming character! I could hardly helpughing aloud sometimes.But he is a liberal master,I suppose,and that in the eye of a servantprehends every virtue.”
Elizabeth here felt herself called on to say something in vindication of his behaviour to Wickham; and therefave them to uand,in as guarded a manner as she could,that by what she had heard from his rtions i,his as were capable of a very different stru; and that his character was by no means so faulty,nor Wickham's so amiable,as they had been sidered ifordshire. In firmation of this, she rted the particrs of all the peiary transas in which they had been ected,without actually naming her authority, but stating it to be such as might be relied on.
Mrs.Gardiner was surprised and ed;but as they were noroag the se of her former pleasures, every idea gave way to the charm of recolle; and she was too mugaged in pointing out to her husband all the iing spots in its environs to think of anything else.Fatigued as she had been by the m's walk they had no sooner diha off again i of her former acquaintand the evening ent iisfas of a interc
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