Chapter Forty Four

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Jimin had settled it that Yoongi would bring his sister to visit him the very day after her reaching Pemberley; and was consequently resolved not to be out of sight of the inn the whole of that morning

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Jimin had settled it that Yoongi would bring his sister to visit him the very day after her reaching Pemberley; and was consequently resolved not to be out of sight of the inn the whole of that morning. But his conclusion was false; for on the very morning after their arrival at Lambton, these visitors came.

They had been walking about the place with some of their new friends, and were just returning to the inn to dress themselves for dining with the same family, when the sound of a carriage drew them to a window, and they saw a gentleman and a lady in a curricle driving up the street. Jimin immediately recognising the livery, guessed what it meant, and imparted no small degree of his surprise to his relations by acquainting them with the honour which he expected.

His uncles were all amazement; and the embarrassment of his manner as he spoke, joined to the circumstance itself, and many of the circumstances of the preceding day, opened to them a new idea on the business. Nothing had ever suggested it before, but they felt that there was no other way of accounting for such attentions from such a quarter than by supposing a partiality for their nephew. While these newly-born notions were passing in their heads, the perturbation of Jimin's feelings was at every moment increasing. He was quite amazed at his own discomposure; but amongst other causes of disquiet, he dreaded lest the partiality of the brother should have said too much in his favour; and, more than commonly anxious to please, he naturally suspected that every power of pleasing would fail him.

He retreated from the window, fearful of being seen; and as he walked up and down the room, endeavouring to compose himself, saw such looks of inquiring surprise in his uncles as made everything worse.

Miss Min and her brother appeared, and this formidable introduction took place. With astonishment did Jimin see that his new acquaintance was at least as much embarrassed as himself. Since his being at Lambton, he had heard that Miss Min was exceedingly proud; but the observation of a very few minutes convinced him that she was only exceedingly shy. He found it difficult to obtain even a word from her beyond a monosyllable.

Min Jiyoung was not tall, shorter than even Jimin; and, though little more than sixteen, her figure was formed, and her appearance womanly and graceful. She was less handsome than her brother; but there was sense and good humour in her face, and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle. Jimin, who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Min Yoongi had been, was much relieved by discerning such different feelings.

They had not long been together before Yoongi told him that Jungkook was also coming to wait on him; and he had barely time to express his satisfaction, and prepare for such a visitor, when Jungkook's quick step was heard on the stairs, and in a moment he entered the room. All Jimin's anger against him had been long done away; but had he still felt any, it could hardly have stood its ground against the unaffected cordiality with which Jungkook expressed himself on seeing Jimin again. He inquired in a friendly, though general way, after his family, and looked and spoke with the same good-humoured ease that he had ever done.

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