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Pride & Prejudice – page 382

JANE AUSTEN

“I am sure,” said she, “I cried for two days together

when Colonel Miller’s regiment went away. I thought I

should have broken my heart.”

“I am sure I shall break mine,” said Lydia.

“If one could but go to Brighton!” observed

Mrs. Bennet.

“Oh, yes!if one could but go to Brighton! But papa

is so disagreeable.”

“A little sea-bathing would set me up forever.”

“And my aunt Phillips is sure it would do me a great

deal of good,” added Kitty.

Such were the kind of lamentations resounding

perpetually through Longbourn House. Elizabeth tried

to be diverted by them; but all sense of pleasure was

lost in shame. She felt anew the justice of Mr. Darcy’s

objections; and never had she been so much disposed

to pardon his interference in the views of his friend.

But the gloom of Lydia’s prospect was shortly

cleared away; for she received an invitation from

Mrs. Forster, the wife of the colonel of the regiment,

to accompany her to Brighton. This invaluable friend

was a very young woman, and very lately married.

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