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Pride and Prejudice

been perceptible, you must be aware that ours is not a

family on which it could be thrown away. When first he

entered the corps, she was ready enough to admire him;

but so we all were. Every girl in or near Meryton was

out of her senses about him for the first two months;

but he never distinguished her by any particular

attention; and, consequently, after a moderate period

of extravagant and wild admiration, her fancy for him

gave way, and others of the regiment, who treated her

with more distinction, again became her favourites.”

It may be easily believed, that however little of

novelty could be added to their fears, hopes, and

conjectures, on this interesting subject, by its repeated

discussion, no other could detain them from it long,

during the whole of the journey. From Elizabeth’s

thoughts it was never absent. Fixed there by the keenest

of all anguish, self-reproach, she could find no interval

of ease or forgetfulness.

They travelled as expeditiously as possible, and,

sleeping one night on the road, reached Longbourn by

dinner time the next day. It was a comfort to Elizabeth

to consider that Jane could not have been wearied by

long expectations.

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