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Pride and Prejudice

“Oh! but the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley’s

chaise to go to Meryton, and the Hursts have no horses

to theirs.”

“I had much rather go in the coach.”

“But, my dear, your father cannot spare the horses, I

am sure. They are wanted in the farm, Mr. Bennet, are

they not?”

“They are wanted in the farm much oftener than I

can get them.”

“But if you have got them to-day,” said Elizabeth,

“my mother’s purpose will be answered.”

She did at last extort from her father an acknowledg-

ment that the horses were engaged. Jane was therefore

obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended

her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad

day. Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone

long before it rained hard. Her sisters were uneasy for

her, but her mother was delighted. The rain continued

the whole evening without intermission; Jane certainly

could not come back.

“This was a lucky idea of mine, indeed!” said

Mrs. Bennet more than once, as if the credit of making

it rain were all her own. Till the next morning, however,

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