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Pride and Prejudice

he had any idea of their not being gone to Scotland:

when that apprehension first got abroad, it hastened his

journey.”

“And was Denny convinced that Wickham would

not marry? Did he know of their intending to go off?

Had Colonel Forster seen Denny himself?”

“Yes; but, when questioned by him, Denny denied

knowing anything of their plans, and would not give his

real opinion about it. He did not repeat his persuasion

of their not marryingand from that, I am inclined to

hope, he might have been misunderstood before.”

“And till Colonel Forster came himself, not one of

you entertained a doubt, I suppose, of their being really

married?”

“How was it possible that such an idea should enter

our brains? I felt a little uneasya little fearful of my

sister’s happiness with him in marriage, because I knew

that his conduct had not been always quite right. My

father and mother knew nothing of that; they only felt

how imprudent a match it must be. Kitty then owned,

with a very natural triumph on knowing more than the

rest of us, that in Lydia’s last letter she had prepared

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