He meant to provide for me amply, and thought he had done it; but when the living fell, it was given elsewhere." "Good heavens!" cried Elizabeth; "but how could _that_ be?
How could his will be disregarded?
Why did you not seek legal redress ?" "There was just such an informality in the terms of the bequest as to give me no hope from law.

A man of honour could not have doubted the intention, but Mr.Darcy chose to doubt it--or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence--in short anything or nothing.

Certain it is, that the living became vacant two years ago, exactly as I was of an age to hold it, and that it was given to another man; and no less certain is it, that I cannot accuse myself of having really done anything to deserve to lose it.

I have a warm, unguarded temper, and I may have spoken my opinion _of_ him, and _to_ him, too freely.

I can recall nothing worse.