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Pride and Prejudice

“My dear, dear Lydia!” she cried. “This is delightful

indeed! She will be married! I shall see her again! She

will be married at sixteen! My good, kind brother!

I knew how it would be. I knew he would manage

everything! How I long to see her! and to see dear

Wickham too! But the clothes, the wedding clothes! I

will write to my sister Gardiner about them directly.

Lizzy, my dear, run down to your father, and ask him

how much he will give her. Stay, stay, I will go myself.

Ring the bell, Kitty, for Hill. I will put on my things in a

moment. My dear, dear Lydia! How merry we shall be

together when we meet!”

Her eldest daughter endeavoured to give some

relief to the violence of these transports, by leading

her thoughts to the obligations which Mr. Gardiner’s

behaviour laid them all under.

“For we must attribute this happy conclusion,”

she added, “in a great measure to his kindness. We

are persuaded that he has pledged himself to assist

Mr. Wickham with money.”

“Well,” cried her mother, “it is all very right; who

should do it but her own uncle? If he had not had a

family of his own, I and my children must have had all

his money, you know; and it is the first time we have

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