The first week of their return was soon gohe sed began. It was thest of the regiment's stay ion,and all the youngdies in the neighbourhood were drooping apace.The deje was almost universal.The elder Miss Bes alone were still able to eat,drink,and sleep,and pursue the usual course of their employments.Very frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and Lydia,whose own misery was extreme, and who could notprehend such hard-heartedness in any of the family.
“Good Heaven!what is to be of us?What are we to do?”would they often exim iterness of woe.“How you be smiling so,Lizzy?”
Their affeate mother shared all their grief;she remembered what she had herself endured on a simr asion, five-and-twenty years ago.
“I am sure,”said she,“I cried for two days together when el Miller's regime away. I thought I should have broken my heart.”
“I am sure I shall break mine,”said Lydia.
“If one could but go thton!”observed Mrs. Be.
“Oh,yes!—if one could but go thton!But papa is so disagreeable.”
“A little sea-bathing would set me up forever.”
“And my aunt Phillips is sure it would do me a great deal of good,”added Kitty.
Such were the kind ofmentations resoundiually through Longbourn House. Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them;but all sense of pleasure was lost in shame.She felt ahe justir. Darcy's objes; and never had she been so much disposed to pardon his interferen the views of his friend
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