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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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