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Pride & Prejudice – page 496

JANE AUSTEN

be married from this house, of which I hope you will

approve. She comes to us to-day. I shall write again as

soon as anything more is determined on. Yours, etc.,

“Edw. Gardiner.”

“Is it possible?” cried Elizabeth, when she had

finished. “Can it be possible that he will marry her?”

“Wickham is not so undeserving, then, as we

thought him,” said her sister. “My dear father, I

congratulate you.”

“And have you answered the letter?” cried Elizabeth.

“No; but it must be done soon.”

Most earnestly did she then entreat him to lose no

more time before he wrote.

“Oh! my dear father,” she cried, “come back and write

immediately. Consider how important every moment is

in such a case.”

“Let me write for you,” said Jane, “if you dislike the

trouble yourself.”

“I dislike it very much,” he replied; “but it must be

done.”

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