第121章

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“And do you like her?”

“Very much.”

“I have heard,deed,that she is uncommonly improved with this year or two.When I last saw her,she was not very promisg. I am very glad you liked her.I hope she will turn out well.”

“I dare say she will;she has got over the most tryg age.”

“Did you go by the village of Kympton?”

“I do not recollect that we did.”

“I mention it,because it is the livg which I ought to have had. A most delightful place!—Excellent Parsonage House! It would have suited me every respect.”

“How should you have liked makg sermons?”

“Exceedgly well. I should have considered it as part of my duty, and the exertion would soon have been nothg. One ought not to repe;—but,to be sure,it would have been such a thg for me!The quiet,the retirement of such a life would have answered all my ideas of happess!But it was not to be.Did you ever hear Darcy mention the circumstance, when you were Kent?”

“I have heard from authority, which I thought as good, that it was left you conditionally only,and at the will of the present patron.”

“You have.Yes,there was somethg that;I told you so from the first,you may remember.”

“I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-makg was not so palatable to you as it seems to be at present;that you actually declared your resolution of never takg orders,and that the busess had been compromised accordgly.”

“You did! and it was not wholly without foundation.You may remember what I told you on that pot,when first we talked of it.”

They were now almost at the door of the house, for she had walked fast to get rid of him;and unwillg,for her sister''s sake, to provoke him, she only said reply, with a good-humoured smile:

“Come,Mr.Wickham,we are brother and sister,you know.Do not let us quarrel about the past. In future, I hope we shall be always of one md.”

She held out her hand;he kissed it with affectionate gallantry, though he hardly knew how to look,and they entered the house.