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Pride & Prejudice – page 386

JANE AUSTEN

Mr. Bennet saw that her whole heart was in the

subject, and affectionately taking her hand said in

reply:

“Do not make yourself uneasy, my love. Wherever

you and Jane are known you must be respected and

valued; and you will not appear to less advantage for

having a couple ofor I may say, thre every silly

sisters. We shall have no peace at Longbourn if Lydia

does not go to Brighton. Let her go, then. Colonel

Forster is a sensible man, and will keep her out of

any real mischief; and she is luckily too poor to be an

object of prey to anybody. At Brighton she will be of

less importance even as a common flirt than she has

been here. The officers will find women better worth

their notice. Let us hope, therefore, that her being there

may teach her her own insignificance. At any rate, she

cannot grow many degrees worse, without authorising

us to lock her up for the rest of her life.”

With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content;

but her own opinion continued the same, and she left

him disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature,

however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on

them. She was confident of having performed her duty,

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