That will make thirteen with ourselves, so there will be just room at table for him." Consoled by this resolution, she was the better able to bear her husband's incivility; though it was very mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see Mr.Bingley, in consequence of it, before _they_ did.

As the day of his arrival drew near: "I begin to be sorry that he comes at all," said Jane to her sister.

"It would be nothing; I could see him with perfect indifference, but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of.

My mother means well; but she does not know, no one can know, how much I suffer from what she says.

Happy shall I be, when his stay at Netherfield is over!" "I wish I could say anything to comfort you," replied Elizabeth; "but it is wholly out of my power.