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Chapter XII · Pride and Prejudice | Audiobook

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  Speaker 1: Chapter 12 In consequence of an agreement between the sisters,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth wrote the next morning to her mother to beg
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  Speaker 1: that the carriage might be sent for them in the
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  Speaker 1: course of the day. But Mrs Bennet, who had calculated
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  Speaker 1: on her daughter's remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself
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  Speaker 1: to receive them with pleasure before. Her answer, therefore, was
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  Speaker 1: not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth's wishes, for she
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  Speaker 1: was impatient to get home. Mrs Bennet sent them word
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  Speaker 1: that they could not possibly have the carriage before Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: and in her postscript it was added that if Mr
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  Speaker 1: Bingley and his sister pressed them to stay longer, she
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  Speaker 1: could spare them very well. Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: was positively resolved, nor did she much expect it would
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  Speaker 1: be asked, and fearful, on the contrary, of being considered
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  Speaker 1: as intruding themselves needlessly long, she urged Jane to borrow Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Bingley's carriage immediately, and at length it was settled immediately.
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  Speaker 1: that their original design of leaving Netherfield that morning should
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  Speaker 1: be mentioned, and the request made. The communication excited many
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  Speaker 1: professions of concern, and enough was said of wishing them
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  Speaker 1: to stay at least till the following day to work
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  Speaker 1: on Jane, until the morrow their going was deferred. Miss
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  Speaker 1: Bingley was then sorry that she had proposed the delay.
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  Speaker 1: For her jealousy, and dislike of one sister, much exceeded
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  Speaker 1: her affection for the other. The master of the house heard,
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  Speaker 1: with real sorrow, that they were to go so soon,
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  Speaker 1: and repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Bennet that it would
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  Speaker 1: not be safe for her, that she was not enough recovered.
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  Speaker 1: But Jane was firm, where she felt herself to be right.
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  Speaker 1: To Mr. Darcy, it was welcome intelligence. Elizabeth had been
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  Speaker 1: at Netherfield long enough. She attracted him more than he liked,
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  Speaker 1: and Miss Bingley was uncivil to her and more teasing
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  Speaker 1: than usual to himself. He wisely resolved to be particularly
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  Speaker 1: careful that no sign of admiration should now escape him,
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  Speaker 1: nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing
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  Speaker 1: his felicity. Sensible that, if such an idea had been suggested,
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  Speaker 1: his behaviour during the last day must have material weight
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  Speaker 1: in confirming or crushing it. Steady to his purpose, he
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  Speaker 1: scarcely spoke ten words to her through the whole of Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and though they were at one time left by themselves
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  Speaker 1: for half an hour, he adhered most conscientiously to his
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  Speaker 1: book and would not even look at her. On Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: after morning service, The separation, so agreeable to almost all,
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  Speaker 1: took place. Miss Bingley's civility to Elizabeth increased at last
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  Speaker 1: very rapidly, as well as her affection for Jane, and
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  Speaker 1: when they parted, after assuring the latter of the pleasure
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  Speaker 1: it would always give her to see her either at
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  Speaker 1: Longbourn or Netherfield, and embracing her most tenderly, she even
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  Speaker 1: shook hands with the former. Elizabeth took leave of the
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  Speaker 1: whole party in the liveliest spirits. They were not welcomed
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  Speaker 1: home very cordially by their mother. Mrs Bennet wondered at
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  Speaker 1: their coming and thought them very wrong to give so
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  Speaker 1: much trouble and was sure Jane would have caught cold again.
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  Speaker 1: But their father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: was really glad to see them. He had felt their
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  Speaker 1: importance in the family circle. The evening conversation, when they
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  Speaker 1: were all assembled, had lost much of its animation, and
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  Speaker 1: almost all its sense, by the absence of Jane and Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of
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  Speaker 1: thorough base and human nature, and had some new extracts
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  Speaker 1: to admire. and some new observations of threadbare morality to
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  Speaker 1: listen to. Catherine and Lydia had information for them of
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  Speaker 1: a different sort. Much had been done, and much had
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  Speaker 1: been said in the regiment since the preceding Wednesday. Several
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  Speaker 1: of the officers had dined lately with their uncle. A
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  Speaker 1: private had been flogged, and it had actually been hinted
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  Speaker 1: that Colonel Forster was going to be married.