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Pride & Prejudice – page 481

Chapter 48

The whole party were in hopes of a letter from

Mr. Bennet the next morning, but the post came in

without bringing a single line from him. His family

knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most

negligent and dilatory correspondent; but at such a

time they had hoped for exertion. They were forced to

conclude that he had no pleasing intelligence to send;

but even of that they would have been glad to be

certain. Mr. Gardiner had waited only for the letters

before he set off.

When he was gone, they were certain at least of

receiving constant information of what was going on,

and their uncle promised, at parting, to prevail on

Mr. Bennet to return to Longbourn, as soon as he could,

to the great consolation of his sister, who considered it

as the only security for her husband’s not being killed

in a duel.

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