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It was not often that she could turn her eyes on Mr. Darcy

himself; but whenever she did catch a glimpse she saw an

expression of general complaisance, and in all that he said, she

heard an accent so far removed from hauteur or disdain of his

companions, as convinced her that the improvement of manners

which she had yesterday witnessed, however temporary its

existence might prove, had at least outlived one day. When she

saw him thus seeking the acquaintance, and courting the good

opinion of people with whom any intercourse a few months ago

would have been a disgrace; when she saw him thus civil, not only

to herself, but to the very relations whom he had openly

disdained, and recollected their last lively scene in Hunsford

Parsonage, the difference, the change was so great, and struck so

forcibly on her mind, that she could hardly restrain her

astonishment from being visible.