These recollections will not do at all.

I assure you that I have long been most heartily ashamed of it." Darcy mentioned his letter.

"Did it," said he, "did it soon make you think better of me?
Did you, on reading it, give any credit to its contents ?" She explained what its effect on her had been, and how gradually all her former prejudices had been removed.
"I knew," said he, "that what I wrote must give you pain, but it was necessary.

I hope you have destroyed the letter.

There was one part especially, the opening of it, which I should dread your having the power of reading again.