，最快更新傲慢与偏见最新章节！“I was certainly very far from expecting themmakestronot the smallest ideatheir being ever feltsucay.”
“I can easily believe it.You thoughtthen devoidevery proper feeling,Isureturnyour countenance I shall never fet,as you said that I could not have addressed youany possible way that would induce youaccept me.”
“oh!not repeat what I the recollections will nota you that I have long been most heartily ashamedit.”
darcy mentioned his letter.“did it,”said he,“didsoon make you think betterme?did you,on reading it,give any creditits contents?”
She explained what its effecther had been, and how gradually all her former prejudices had been removed.
“I knew,”said he,“that what I wrote must give you pain, butwa you have destroyedwas one part especially,the openingit,which I should dread your having the powerreadin remember some expressions which might justly make you hate me.”
“The letter shall certainlyburnt,if you believeessentialthe preservationmy regard;but,thoughhave both reasonthinkopinions not entirely unalterable, they are not, I hope,quiteeasily changedthat implies.”
“when I wrote that letter,”replied darcy,“I believed myself perfectly calm and cool, but Isince convinced thatwas writtena dreadful bitternessspirit.”
“The letter,perhaps,beganbitterness,butdid not end so. The adieucharit thinkmoreth feelingsthe person who wrote,and the person who received it, are nowwidely different from what they were then,that every unpleasant circumstance attendingoughtb must learn somem onlythe pastits remembrance gives you pleasure.”
“I cannot give you credit for any philosophyth retrospections mustso totally voidreproach, that the contentment arising from themnotphilosophy, but, whatmuch better, o with me,is not so. Painful recollections will intrude which cannot,which ought not,teeelfish being alllife,in practice,thoughchild I was taught what was right,but I was not taughtcorreciven good principles,but leftfollow thempridean only son (for many yearsonly child), I was spoiltmy parents, who,though good themselves(my father,particularly,all that was benevolent and amiable),allowed,encouraged,almost taughttoselfish and overbearing;care for none beyondown family circle;to think meanlyall the restthe world;to wishleastthink meanlytheir sense and worth pared with m I was, from eighteight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you,dearest,loveliest Elizabeth! whatI not owe you!You taughta lesson,hard indeedfirst, but mos you, I was properlyou withououbtm showedhow insufficient were allpretensionspleasoman worthybeing pleased.”
“Had you then persuaded yourself that I should?”
“Indeed will you thinkmy vanity?I believed yoube wishing,expectingaddresses.”
“my manners must have beenfault,but not intentionally,I assur meantdeceive you,butspirits might often leaou must have hatedafter that evening?”
“Hate you! I was angry perhapsfirst, butanger soon begantakroper direction.”