It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.