This part of his intelligence, though unheard by Lydia, was caught by Elizabeth, and as it assured her that Darcy was not less answerable for Wickham's absence than if her first surmise had been just, every feeling of displeasure against the former was so sharpened by immediate disappointment, that she could hardly reply with tolerable civility to the polite inquiries which he directly afterwards approached to make. -- Attention, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham. She was resolved against any sort of conversation with him, and turned away with a degree of ill humour, which she could not wholly surmount even in speaking to Mr. Bingley, whose blind partiality provoked her.
But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particular notice. The two first dances, however, brought a return of distress; they were dances of mortification. Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, apologising instead of attending, and often moving wrong without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give. The moment of her release from him was exstacy.
他这个消息丽迪雅虽然没有听见,却给伊丽莎白听见了。伊丽莎白因此断定:关于韦翰缺席的原因,虽然她开头没有猜对,却依旧是达西先生一手造成的。她觉得非常扫兴,对达西也就越发起了反感,因此接下来当达西走上前来向她问好的时候,她简直不能好声好气地回答他。要知道,对达西殷勤,宽容,忍耐,就等于伤害韦翰。她决定不跟他说一句话,怏怏不乐地掉过头来就走,甚至跟彬格莱先生说起话来也不大快乐,因为他对达西的盲目偏爱引起了她的气愤。
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