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Chapter 10.

More than once did Elizabeth in her ramble within the park unexpectedly meet Mr. Darcy.

She felt all the perverseness of the

mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought, and to prevent it ever happening

again took care to inform him at first that it was the favorite haunt of hers. How it could

occur a second time, therefore, was very odd. Yet it did, and even a third.

It seemed like willful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance.

For on these occasions, it was not merely a few formal inquiries,

an awkward pause, and then away.

But he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.

He never said a great deal, nor did she give herself the trouble of talking or of listening much.

But it struck her, in the course of their third meeting,

that he was asking some odd, unconnected questions about her pleasure in being at Hunsford,

her love of solitary walks, and her opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Collins's

happiness, and that in speaking of Rosings and her not perfectly understanding the house, he seemed to

expect that whenever she came into Kent again, she would be staying there too. His words seemed to imply it. Could he have

Colonel Fitzwilliam in his thoughts? She supposed, if he meant anything, he must mean an allusion

to what might arise in that quarter. It distressed her a little, and she was quite glad to find

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