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comforts, and mentioned nothing which she could not

praise. The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads,

were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine’s behaviour

was most friendly and obliging. It was Mr. Collins’s

picture of Hunsford and Rosings rationally softened;

and Elizabeth perceived that she must wait for her own

visit there to know the rest.

Jane had already written a few lines to her sister to

announce their safe arrival in London; and when she

wrote again, Elizabeth hoped it would be in her power

to say something of the Bingleys.

Her impatience for this second letter was as well

rewarded as impatience generally is. Jane had been a

week in town without either seeing or hearing from

Caroline. She accounted for it, however, by supposing

that her last letter to her friend from Longbourn had by

some accident been lost.

“My aunt,” she continued, “is going to-morrow into

that part of the town, and I shall take the opportunity

of calling in Grosvenor Street.”

She wrote again when the visit was paid, and she had

seen Miss Bingley. “I did not think Caroline in spirits,”

were her words, “but she was very glad to see me, and

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