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Pride and Prejudice
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Chapter 39
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It was the second week in May,
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in which the three young ladies set out together from Gracechurch Street for the town of ——,
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in Hertfordshire;
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and,
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as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet’s carriage was to meet them,
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they quickly perceived,
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in token of the coachman’s punctuality,
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both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room up stairs.
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These two girls had been above an hour in the place,
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happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner,
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watching the sentinel on guard,
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and dressing a salad and cucumber.
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After welcoming their sisters,
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they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords,
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exclaiming,
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“Is not this nice?
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Is not this an agreeable surprise?”
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“And we mean to treat you all,”
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added Lydia,
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“but you must lend us the money,
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for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.”
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Then,
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showing her purchases—“Look here,
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I have bought this bonnet.
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I do not think it is very pretty;
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but I thought I might as well buy it as not.
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I shall pull it to pieces as soon as I get home,
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and see if I can make it up any better.”
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And when her sisters abused it as ugly,
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she added,
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with perfect unconcern,
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“Oh!
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but there were two or three much uglier in the shop;
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and when I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim it with fresh,
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I think it will be very tolerable.
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Besides,
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it will not much signify what one wears this summer,
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after the ——shire have left Meryton,
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and they are going in a fortnight.”
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“Are they indeed!”
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cried Elizabeth,
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with the greatest satisfaction.
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“They are going to be encamped near Brighton;
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and I do so want papa to take us all there for the summer!
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It would be such a delicious scheme;
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and I dare say would hardly cost anything at all.
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Mamma would like to go too of all things!
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Only think what a miserable summer else we shall have!”
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“Yes,”
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thought Elizabeth,
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“that would be a delightful scheme indeed,
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and completely do for us at once.
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Good Heaven!
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Brighton,
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and a whole campful of soldiers,
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to us,
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who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia,
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and the monthly balls of Meryton!”
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“Now I have got some news for you,”
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said Lydia,
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as they sat down at table.
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“What do you think?
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It is excellent news—capital news—and about a certain person we all like!”
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Jane and Elizabeth looked at each other,
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and the waiter was told he need not stay.
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Lydia laughed,
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and said:
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“Aye,
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that is just like your formality and discretion.
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You thought the waiter must not hear,
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as if he cared!
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I dare say he often hears worse things said than I am going to say.
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But he is an ugly fellow!
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I am glad he is gone.
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I never saw such a long chin in my life.
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Well,
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but now for my news;
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it is about dear Wickham;
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too good for the waiter,
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is it not?
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There is no danger of Wickham’s marrying Mary King.
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There’s for you!
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She is gone down to her uncle at Liverpool:
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gone to stay.
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Wickham is safe.”
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“And Mary King is safe!”
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added Elizabeth;
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“safe from a connection imprudent as to fortune.”
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“She is a great fool for going away,
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if she liked him.”
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“But I hope there is no strong attachment on either side,”
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said Jane.
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“I am sure there is not on his.
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I will answer for it,
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he never cared three straws about her—who could about such a nasty little freckled thing?”
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Elizabeth was shocked to think that,
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however incapable of such coarseness of expression herself,
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the coarseness of the sentiment was little other than her own breast had harboured and fancied liberal!
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As soon as all had ate,
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and the elder ones paid,
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the carriage was ordered;
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and after some contrivance,
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the whole party,
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with all their boxes,
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work-bags,
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and parcels,
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and the unwelcome addition of Kitty’s and Lydia’s purchases,
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were seated in it.
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“How nicely we are all crammed in,”
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cried Lydia.
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“I am glad I bought my bonnet,
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if it is only for the fun of having another bandbox!
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Well,
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now let us be quite comfortable and snug,
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and talk and laugh all the way home.
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And in the first place,
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let us hear what has happened to you all since you went away.
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Have you seen any pleasant men?
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Have you had any flirting?
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I was in great hopes that one of you would have got a husband before you came back.
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Jane will be quite an old maid soon,
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I declare.
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She is almost three-and-twenty!
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Lord,
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how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty!
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