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Pride and Prejudice

He readily agreed to it.

“I began to be afraid you would never come back

again. People did say you meant to quit the place

entirely at Michaelmas; but, however, I hope it is not

true. A great many changes have happened in the

neighbourhood, since you went away. Miss Lucas is

married and settled. And one of my own daughters. I

suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have

seen it in the papers. It was in The Times and The

Courier, I know; though it was not put in as it ought

to be. It was only said, ‘Lately, George Wickham, Esq.

to Miss Lydia Bennet,’ without there being a syllable

said of her father, or the place where she lived, or

anything. It was my brother Gardiner’s drawing up too,

and I wonder how he came to make such an awkward

business of it. Did you see it?”

Bingley replied that he did, and made his congrat-

ulations. Elizabeth dared not lift up her eyes. How

Mr. Darcy looked, therefore, she could not tell.

“It is a delightful thing, to be sure, to have a daughter

well married,” continued her mother, “but at the same

time, Mr. Bingley, it is very hard to have her taken such

a way from me. They are gone down to Newcastle, a

place quite northward, it seems, and there they are to

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