From what I can collect, he left Derbyshire only one day after ourselves, and came to town with the resolution of hunting for them.

The motive professed was his conviction of its being owing to himself that Wickham's worthlessness had not been so well known as to make it impossible for any young woman of character to love or confide in him.

He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken pride, and confessed that he had before thought it beneath him to lay his private actions open to the world.

His character was to speak for itself.

He called it, therefore, his duty to step forward, and endeavour to remedy an evil which had been brought on by himself.