“How was it possible that su idea should enter our brains? I felt a little uneasy—a little fearful of my sister's happiness with him in marriage,because I khat his duct had not been always quite right.My father and mother knew nothing of that;they only felt how imprudent a match it must be. Kitty then owned, with a very natural triumph on knowing more than the rest of us,that in Lydia'sst letter she had prepared her for such a step.She had known,it seems,of their being in love with each other,many weeks.”
“But not before they went thton?”
“No,I believe not.”
“And did el Forster appear to think ill of Wickham himself?Does he know his real character?”
“I must fess that he did not speak so well of Wickham as he formerly did.He believed him to be imprudent aravagant. And sihis sad affair has take is said that he left Merytoly i;but I hope this may be false.”
“Oh,Jane,had we been less secret,had we told what we knew of him,this could not have happened!”
“Perhaps it would have beeer,”replied her sister.
“But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were,seemed unjustifiable.We acted with the best iions.”
“Could el Forster repeat the particrs of Lydia's o his wife?”
“He brought it with him for us to see.”
Jahen took it from her pocket-book,and gave it to Elizabeth. These were the tents:
“MY DEAR HARRIET,
“You willugh when you know where
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