[Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookPride and Prejudice Chapter 33 2/9
Could he have Colonel Fitzwilliam in his thoughts? She supposed, if he meant anything, he must mean an allusion to what might arise in that quarter.
It distressed her a little, and she was quite glad to find herself at the gate in the pales opposite the Parsonage. She was engaged one day as she walked, in perusing Jane's last letter, and dwelling on some passages which proved that Jane had not written in spirits, when, instead of being again surprised by Mr.Darcy, she saw on looking up that Colonel Fitzwilliam was meeting her.
Putting away the letter immediately and forcing a smile, she said: "I did not know before that you ever walked this way." "I have been making the tour of the park," he replied, "as I generally do every year, and intend to close it with a call at the Parsonage.
Are you going much farther ?" "No, I should have turned in a moment." And accordingly she did turn, and they walked towards the Parsonage together. "Do you certainly leave Kent on Saturday ?" said she. "Yes--if Darcy does not put it off again.
But I am at his disposal.
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