Chapter XXV.

1. After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday. There was preparations for the wedding; after his return into Hertfordshire, the would be a day that would make him the happiest of men.

2. On Monday, Mrs. Bennet`s brother and his wife came to spend the Christmas at Longbourn. Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man. Mrs. Gardiner was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Phillips, was an amiable, intelligent woman.

3. Mrs. Gardiner's distributed her presents and describe the newest fashions. Than It became her turn to listen. Mrs. Bennet had many things to tell.

4. It is very hard to think that Charlotte might have been Mr. Collins's wife by this time.-said Jane He made her an offer in this very room, and she refused him. Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have.

5. Mrs. Gardiner made a slight answer about wedding and turned the conversation.

6. Alone with Elizabeth afterwards, she spoke more on the subject. "It seems likely to have been a desirable match for Jane," said she. These things happen so often! A young man, so easily falls in love with a pretty girl for a few weeks, and when accident separates them, so easily forgets her."

7. "An excellent consolation in its way," said Elizabeth, We do not suffer by ACCIDENT.

8. "But that expression of 'violently in love' is so doubtful that it gives me only one idea. Pray, how VIOLENT WAS Mr. Bingley's love?"

9. Mr Bingley was growing inattentive to other people, and engrossed by Jane. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"

10. It is a kind of love which I suppose him to have felt. Poor Jane! I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately.

11. Mrs. Gardiner suggested going and living in London for sometime.

12. Elizabeth was pleased with proposal.

13. "I hope," added Mrs. Gardiner, "that no consideration with regard to this young man will influence her. We live in so different a part of town and we go out so little, that it is very improbable that they should meet at all, unless he really comes to see her."

14. "And THAT is quite impossible; Mr. Darcy would no more suffer him to call on Jane in such a part of London! Mr. Darcy may have HEARD of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would not visit it and Mr. Bingley never goes without him."

15. "So much the better. I hope they will not meet at all. But does not Jane correspond with Mr. Bingley`s sister?

16. "She will stop writing letters."

17. For Elizabeth was interesting one of Bingley's being withheld from seeing Jane. she did not consider their relations hopeless. she thought that his affection might be reanimated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane's attractions.

18. Miss Bennet accepted her aunt's invitation.

19. The Gardiners stayed a week at Longbourn. Mrs. Bennet provided the entertainment of her brother and sister. she saw that Mr Wickham and Elizabeth were in love decided to speak to Elizabeth on this subject before she left Hertfordshire.

20. To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham was pleasant. Before her marriage 10 years ago she had spent some time in that part of Derbyshire. They had many acquaintances in common. It was in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends.

21. Mrs. Gardiner had seen Pemberley, and known Mr. Darcy by character very well. She compared her recollection of Pemberley with the description which Wickham gave. She tried to remember some of Mr Darcy`s reputed disposition and was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.