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"I begin to be sorry that he comes at all," said Jane to her

sister. "It would be nothing; I could see him with perfect

indifference; but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually

talked of. My mother means well; but she does not know, no one

can know, how much I suffer from what she says. Happy shall I be

when his stay at Netherfield is over!"

"I wish I could say anything to comfort you," replied Elizabeth;

"but it is wholly out of my power. You must feel it; and the

usual satisfaction of preaching patience to a sufferer is denied

me, because you have always so much."