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“Oh, no!”said Elizabeth.“In essentials, I believe, he is very much what he ever was.”

“Nearly three weeks.”

“How long did you say he was at Rosings?”

Elizabeth could not repress a smile at this, but she answered only by a slight inclination of the head.She saw that he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances,and she was in no humour to indulge him.The rest of the evening passed with the appearance, on his side, of usual cheerfulness, but with no further attempt to distinguish Elizabeth;and they parted at last with mutual civility,and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

“Yes,almost every day.”

“Yes, very different. But I think Mr. Darcy improves upon acquaintance.”