The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: and every step was bringing forward a nobler fall of ground, or
a finer reach of the woods to which they were approaching; but
it was some time before Elizabeth was sensible of any of it; and,
though she answered mechanically to the repeated appeals of
her uncle and aunt, and seemed to direct her eyes to such
objects as they pointed out, she distinguished no part of the
scene. Her thoughts were all fixed on that one spot of
Pemberley House, whichever it might be, where Mr. Darcy then
was. She longed to know what at the moment was passing in
his mind-- in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in
defiance of everything, she was still dear to him. Perhaps he
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