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In this room they were received by Miss Darcy, who was sitting

there with Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley, and the lady with whom

she lived in London. Georgiana's reception of them was very

civil, but attended with all that embarrassment which, though

proceeding from shyness and the fear of doing wrong, would easily

give to those who felt themselves inferior the belief of her

being proud and reserved. Mrs. Gardiner and her niece, however,

did her justice, and pitied her.