“Do not make yourself uneasy,my love.Wherever you and Jane are known you must be respected and valued; and you will not appear to less advantage for having a couple of—or I may say, three—very silly sisters.We shall have no peace at Longbourn if Lydia does not go thto her go,then.el Forster is a sensible man,and will keep her out of any real mischief;and she is luckily too poor to be an object of prey to anybody.At Brighton she will be of less importance even as amon flirt than she has beehe officers will find womeer worth their notice. Let us hope, therefore, that her being there may teach her her own insignifice.At any rate, she ot grow many degrees worse,without authorising us to lock her up for the rest of her life.”
With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be tent;but her own opinion tihe same,and she left him disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was fident of having performed her duty,and to fret over unavoidable evils,ment them by ay,was no part of her disposition.
Had Lydia and her mother known the substance of her fereh her father,their indignation would hardly have found expression in their united volubility.In Lydia's imagination, a visit thtonprised every possibility of earthly happiness. She saw, with the creative eye of fancy, the streets of that gay bathing-ce covered with officers. She saw herself the object of attention,to tens and to scores of them at present unkn
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