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He had been some time with Mr. Gardiner, who, with two or three

other gentlemen from the house, was engaged by the river; and had

left him only on learning that the ladies of the family intended

a visit to Georgiana that morning. No sooner did he appear, than

Elizabeth wisely resolved to be perfectly easy and

unembarrassed;--a resolution the more necessary to be made, but

perhaps not the more easily kept, because she saw that the

suspicions of the whole party were awakened against them, and

that there was scarcely an eye which did not watch his behaviour

when he first came into the room. In no countenance was attentive

curiosity so strongly marked as in Miss Bingley's, in spite of

the smiles which overspread her face whenever she spoke to one of

its objects; for jealousy had not yet made her desperate, and her

attentions to Mr. Darcy were by no means over.