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How grievous then was
a situation so desirable in every respect, so replete with advantage, so promising for happiness, Jane had been deprived, by the folly and indecorum of her own family!
into the particulars of their journey,
the best method of packing,
on the necessity of placing gowns in the only right way,
a good journey,
to come to Hunsford again next year;
She had spent six weeks with great enjoyment; and the pleasure of being with Charlotte, and the kind attentions she had received, must make her feel the obliged.
it was a great happiness where that was the case,
she firmly believed and rejoiced in his domestic comforts.
Poor Charlotte! it was melancholy to leave her to such society!
But she had chosen it with her eyes open; and though evidently regretting that her visitors were to go, she did not seem to ask for compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.
his best respects to all her family,
his thanks for the kindness he had received at Longbourn in the winter, and his compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, though unknown.
they had hitherto forgotten to leave any message for the ladies at Rosings.
“And how much I shall have to conceal.”
But Jane was to go home with her, and at Longbourn there would be leisure enough for observation.
as to the extent of what she should communicate; and
if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into repeating something of Bingley which might only grieve her sister further.
as ugly,
he need not stay.
however incapable of such coarseness of expression herself, the coarseness of the sentiment was little other than her own breast had formerly harboured and fancied liberal!
It should not be said that the Miss Bennets could not be at home half a day before they were in pursuit of the officers.
to avoid it as long as possible.
The comfort to her, of the regiment's approaching removal was indeed beyond expression. In a fortnight they were to go — and once gone,
there could be nothing more to plague her on his account.
the Brighton scheme, of which Lydia had given them a hint at the inn, was under frequent discussion between her parents.
her father had not the smallest intention of yielding; but his answers were at the same time so vague and equivocal, that her mother, though often disheartened, had never yet despaired of succeeding at last.
Mr. Darcy should have delivered his sentiments in a manner so little suited to recommend them;
the unhappiness which her sister's refusal must have given him.
Here was knowledge in which no one could partake;
nothing less than a perfect understanding between the parties could justify her in throwing off this last encumbrance of mystery.
“And then,”
“if that very improbable event should ever take place, I shall merely be able to tell what Bingley may tell in a much more agreeable manner himself. The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost all its value!”
Jane was not happy.
a very tender affection for Bingley.
she had herself endured on a similar occasion, five-and-twenty years ago.
the justice of Mr. Darcy's objections; and never had she before been so much disposed to pardon his interference in the views of his friend.
as the death warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter;
detestable as such a step must make her were it known,
secretly advising her father not to let her go.
all the improprieties of Lydia's general behaviour, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of such a woman as Mrs. Forster, and the probability of her being yet more imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must be greater than at home.
her whole heart was in the subject,
a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness.
the streets of that gay bathing-place covered with officers.
herself the object of attention, to tens and to scores of them at present unknown.
all the glories of the camp — its tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet; and, to complete the view,
herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once.
Lydia's going to Brighton
her husband's never intending to go there himself.