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did. She seems perfectly happy, however, and in a

prudential light it is certainly a very good match for

her.”

“It must be very agreeable for her to be settled within

so easy a distance of her own family and friends.”

“An easy distance, do you call it? It is nearly fifty

miles.”

“And what is fifty miles of good road? Little more

than half a day’s journey. Yes, I call it a very easy

distance.”

“I should never have considered the distance as one

of the advantages of the match,” cried Elizabeth. “I

should never have said Mrs. Collins was settled near

her family.”

“It is a proof of your own attachment to

Hertfordshire. Anything beyond the very neighbour-

hood of Longbourn, I suppose, would appear far.”

As he spoke there was a sort of smile which

Elizabeth fancied she understood; he must be suppos-

ing her to be thinking of Jane and Netherfield, and she

blushed as she answered:

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