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unluckily ordered before any of the others, and she had

no opportunity of detaining them.

“Well girls,” said she, as soon as they were left to

themselves, “what say you to the day? I think every

thing has passed off uncommonly well, I assure you.

The dinner was as well dressed as any I ever saw. The

venison was roasted to a turnand everybody said they

never saw so fat a haunch. The soup was fifty times

better than what we had at the Lucases’ last week;

and even Mr. Darcy acknowledged, that the partridges

were remarkably well done; and I suppose he has two

or three French cooks at least. And, my dear Jane, I

never saw you look in greater beauty. Mrs. Long said

so too, for I asked her whether you did not. And what

do you think she said besides? ‘Ah! Mrs. Bennet, we

shall have her at Netherfield at last.’ She did indeed. I do

think Mrs. Long is as good a creature as ever livedand

her nieces are very pretty behaved girls, and not at all

handsome: I like them prodigiously.”

Mrs. Bennet, in short, was in very great spirits; she

had seen enough of Bingley’s behaviour to Jane, to

be convinced that she would get him at last; and her

expectations of advantage to her family, when in a

happy humour, were so far beyond reason, that she was

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