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Pride & Prejudice – page 262

JANE AUSTEN

“No, Lizzy, that is what I do not choose. I should be

sorry, you know, to think ill of a young man who has

lived so long in Derbyshire.”

“Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of

young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate

friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better.

I am sick of them all. Thank Heaven! I am going

to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one

agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to

recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth

knowing, after all.”

“Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of

disappointment.”

Before they were separated by the conclusion of the

play, she had the unexpected happiness of an invitation

to accompany her uncle and aunt in a tour of pleasure

which they proposed taking in the summer.

“We have not determined how far it shall carry us,”

said Mrs. Gardiner, “but, perhaps, to the Lakes.”

No scheme could have been more agreeable to

Elizabeth, and her acceptance of the invitation was

most ready and grateful. “Oh, my dear, dear aunt,” she

rapturously cried, “what delight! what felicity! You give

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