exceptional purpose. It is not likely that money should be very abundant oher side;and it might strike them that they could be more eically, though less expeditiously, married in London than in Sd.”
“But why all this secrecy?Why any fear of dete?Why must their marriage be private?Oh,no,no—this is not likely.His most particr friend,you see by Jane's ount,ersuaded of his never intending to marry her.Wickham will never marry a woman without some money.He ot afford it.And what ims has Lydia—what attra has she beyond youth,health,and good humour that could make him,for her sake,fo every ce of being himself by marrying well? As to what restraint the apprehensions of disgra the corps might throw on a dishonourable elopement with her,I am not able to judge;for I know nothing of the effects that such a step might produce.But as to your other obje,I am afraid it will hardly hold good. Lydia has no brothers to step forward; and he might imagine, from my father's behaviour, from his indolend the little attention he has ever seemed to give to what was going forward in his family,that he would do as little,and think as little about it,as any father could do,in such a matter.”
“But you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love of him as to sent to live with him on any terms other than marriage?”
“It does seem,and it is most shog indeed,”replied Elizabeth, with tears in her eyes,“that a sister's sense of ded virtue in such a point should admit o
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