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Pride and Prejudice

as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly

foolish.”

“My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls

to have the sense of their father and mother. When

they get to our age, I dare say they will not think about

officers any more than we do. I remember the time

when I liked a red coat myself very welland, indeed,

so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel,

with five or six thousand a year, should want one of

my girls I shall not say nay to him; and I thought

Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night

at Sir William’s in his regimentals.”

“Mamma,” cried Lydia, “my aunt says that Colonel

Forster and Captain Carter do not go so often to Miss

Watson’s as they did when they first came; she sees

them now very often standing in Clarke’s library.”

Mrs. Bennet was prevented replying by the entrance

of the footman with a note for Miss Bennet; it came

from Netherfield, and the servant waited for an answer.

Mrs. Bennet’s eyes sparkled with pleasure, and she was

eagerly calling out, while her daughter read, “Well,

Jane, who is it from? What is it about? What does he

say? Well, Jane, make haste and tell us; make haste, my

love.”

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