" Indeed, I do say it. I never saw anybody in my life spell harder for an invitation. Poor man! I was really in pain for him; for your hard-hearted sister, Miss Anne, seems bent on cruelty" .
'From what we have seen of him, ' continued Mrs. Gardiner, 'I really should not have thought that he could have behaved in so cruel a way by any body, as he has done by poor Wickham.