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She respected, she esteemed, she was grateful to him, she felt a

real interest in his welfare; and she only wanted to know how far

she wished that welfare to depend upon herself, and how far it

would be for the happiness of both that she should employ the

power, which her fancy told her she still possessed, of bringing

on the renewal of his addresses.

It had been settled in the evening, between the aunt and niece,

that such a striking civility as Miss Darcy's, in coming to them

on the very day of her arrival at Pemberley--for she had reached

it only to a late breakfast--ought to be imitated, though it

could not be equalled, by some exertion of politeness on their

side; and, consequently, that it would be highly expedient to

wait on her at Pemberley the following morning. They were,

therefore, to go. Elizabeth was pleased; though when she asked

herself the reason, she had very little to say in reply.