when the
following
account of
my actions
and their
motives
has been
read. If,
in the
explanation
of them,
which is
due to
myself, I
am under
the
necessity
of
relating
feelings
which may
be
offensive
to yours,
I can only
say that I
am sorry.
The
necessity
must be
obeyed,
and
further
apology
would be
absurd. “I
had not
been long
in
Hertfordshire,
before I
saw, in
common
with
others,
that
Bingley
preferred
your elder
sister to
