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They had not been long together before Darcy told her that

Bingley was also coming to wait on her; and she had barely time

to express her satisfaction, and prepare for such a visitor, when

Bingley's quick step was heard on the stairs, and in a moment he

entered the room. All Elizabeth's anger against him had been long

done away; but had she still felt any, it could hardly have stood

its ground against the unaffected cordiality with which he

expressed himself on seeing her again. He inquired in a friendly,

though general, way, after her family, and looked and spoke with

the same good-humoured ease that he had ever done.