As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality as had marked their several meetings in Derbyshire; and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.
Au moment ou il disparaissait, Elizabeth se dit qu’ils avaient bien peu de chances de se rencontrer de nouveau dans cette atmosphere de cordialité qui avait fait le charme de leurs entrevues en Derbyshire. Au souvenir de leurs rapports si divers et si pleins de revirements, elle songea en soupirant a ces étranges vicissitudes de sentiments qui lui faisaient souhaiter maintenant la continuation de ces rapports apres l’avoir amenée jadis a se réjouir de leur rupture.