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Pride & Prejudice – page 258

JANE AUSTEN

finally settled according to Charlotte’s first sketch. She

was to accompany Sir William and his second daughter.

The improvement of spending a night in London was

added in time, and the plan became perfect as plan

could be.

The only pain was in leaving her father, who would

certainly miss her, and who, when it came to the point,

so little liked her going, that he told her to write to him,

and almost promised to answer her letter.

The farewell between herself and Mr. Wickham was

perfectly friendly; on his side even more. His present

pursuit could not make him forget that Elizabeth had

been the first to excite and to deserve his attention,

the first to listen and to pity, the first to be admired;

and in his manner of bidding her adieu, wishing her

every enjoyment, reminding her of what she was to

expect in Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and trusting their

opinion of hertheir opinion of everybod ywould

always coincide, there was a solicitude, an interest

which she felt must ever attach her to him with a most

sincere regard; and she parted from him convinced

that, whether married or single, he must always be her

model of the amiable and pleasing.

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