(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at hisgallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in hermanner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcyhad never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Though it is difficult," said Jane, "to guess in what way he can meanto make us the atonement he thinks our due, the wish is certainly to hiscredit.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "It is difficult indeed--it is distressing.
A promise of secrecy was of course verydutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for thecuriosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very directquestions on his return as required some ingenuity to evade, and he wasat the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing topublish his prosperous love.
The Netherfieldladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who livedby trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been sowell-bred and agreeable.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) But when Elizabeth told of his silence; it did not seem very likely,even to Charlotte's wishes, to be the case; and after variousconjectures, they could at last only suppose his visit to proceed fromthe difficulty of finding anything to do, which was the more probablefrom the time of year.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) But why Mr. Darcy came so often to the Parsonage, it was more difficultto understand.