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In\r\ntruth, I must acknowledge, that, with all the disadvantages of this\r\nhumble parsonage, I should not think anyone abiding in it an object of\r\ncompassion, while they are sharers of our intimacy at Rosings.”\r\n\r\nWords were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings; and he was\r\nobliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility\r\nand truth in a few short sentences.\r\n\r\n“You may, in fact, carry a very favourable report of us into\r\nHertfordshire, my dear cousin. I flatter myself, at least, that you will\r\nbe able to do so. Lady Catherine’s great attentions to Mrs. Collins you\r\nhave been a daily witness of; and altogether I trust it does not appear\r\nthat your friend has drawn an unfortunate--but on this point it will be\r\nas well to be silent. Only let me assure you, my dear Miss Elizabeth,\r\nthat I can from my heart most cordially wish you equal felicity in\r\nmarriage. My dear Charlotte and I have but one mind and one way of\r\nthinking. There is in everything a most remarkable resemblance of\r\ncharacter and ideas between us. We seem to have been designed for each\r\nother.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth could safely say that it was a great happiness where that was\r\nthe case, and with equal sincerity could add, that she firmly believed\r\nand rejoiced in his domestic comforts. She was not sorry, however, to\r\nhave the recital of them interrupted by the entrance of the lady from\r\nwhom they sprang. Poor Charlotte! it was melancholy to leave her to such\r\nsociety! But she had chosen it with her eyes open; and though evidently\r\nregretting that her visitors were to go, she did not seem to ask for\r\ncompassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry,\r\nand all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.\r\n\r\nAt length the chaise arrived, the trunks were fastened on, the parcels\r\nplaced within, and it was pronounced to be ready. After an affectionate\r\nparting between the friends, Elizabeth was attended to the carriage by\r\nMr. Collins; and as they walked down the garden, he was commissioning\r\nher with his best respects to all her family, not forgetting his thanks\r\nfor the kindness he had received at Longbourn in the winter, and his\r\ncompliments to Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, though unknown. He then handed\r\nher in, Maria followed, and the door was on the point of being closed,\r\nwhen he suddenly reminded them, with some consternation, that they had\r\nhitherto forgotten to leave any message for the ladies of Rosings.\r\n\r\n[Illustration:\r\n\r\n“They had forgotten to leave any message”\r\n]\r\n\r\n“But,” he added, “you will of course wish to have your humble respects\r\ndelivered to them, with your grateful thanks for their kindness to you\r\nwhile you have been here.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth made no objection: the door was then allowed to be shut, and\r\nthe carriage drove off.\r\n\r\n“Good gracious!” cried Maria, after a few minutes’ silence, “it seems\r\nbut a day or two since we first came! and yet how many things have\r\nhappened!”\r\n\r\n“A great many indeed,” said her companion, with a sigh.\r\n\r\n“We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking tea there twice!\r\nHow much I shall have to tell!”\r\n\r\nElizabeth privately added, “And how much I shall have to conceal!”\r\n\r\nTheir journey was performed without much conversation, or any alarm; and\r\nwithin four hours of their leaving Hunsford they reached Mr. Gardiner’s\r\nhouse, where they were to remain a few days.\r\n\r\nJane looked well, and Elizabeth had little opportunity of studying her\r\nspirits, amidst the various engagements which the kindness of her aunt\r\nhad reserved for them. But Jane was to go home with her, and at\r\nLongbourn there would be leisure enough for observation.\r\n\r\nIt was not without an effort, meanwhile, that she could wait even for\r\nLongbourn, before she told her sister of Mr. Darcy’s proposals. To know\r\nthat she had the power of revealing what would so exceedingly astonish\r\nJane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her own\r\nvanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptation\r\nto openness as nothing could have conquered, but the state of indecision\r\nin which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate,\r\nand her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into\r\nrepeating something of Bingley, which might only grieve her sister\r\nfurther.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration:\r\n\r\n     “How nicely we are crammed in”\r\n]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration]\r\n\r\nIt was the second week in May, in which the three young ladies set out\r\ntogether from Gracechurch Street for the town of ----, in Hertfordshire;\r\nand, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet’s carriage was\r\nto meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman’s\r\npunctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room upstairs.\r\nThese two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed\r\nin visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and\r\ndressing a salad and cucumber.\r\n\r\nAfter welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set\r\nout with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming,\r\n“Is not this nice? is not this an agreeable surprise?”\r\n\r\n“And we mean to treat you all,” added Lydia; “but you must lend us the\r\nmoney, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.” Then showing\r\nher purchases,--“Look here, I have bought this bonnet. I do not think it\r\nis very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not. I shall\r\npull it to pieces as soon as I get home, and see if I can make it up any\r\nbetter.”\r\n\r\nAnd when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect\r\nunconcern, “Oh, but there were two or three much uglier in the shop; and\r\nwhen I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim it with fresh, I\r\nthink it will be very tolerable. Besides, it will not much signify what\r\none wears this summer, after the ----shire have left Meryton, and they\r\nare going in a fortnight.”\r\n\r\n“Are they, indeed?” cried Elizabeth, with the greatest satisfaction.\r\n\r\n“They are going to be encamped near Brighton; and I do so want papa to\r\ntake us all there for the summer! It would be such a delicious scheme,\r\nand I dare say would hardly cost anything at all. Mamma would like to\r\ngo, too, of all things! Only think what a miserable summer else we shall\r\nhave!”\r\n\r\n“Yes,” thought Elizabeth; “_that_ would be a delightful scheme, indeed,\r\nand completely do for us at once. Good Heaven! Brighton and a whole\r\ncampful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor\r\nregiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!”\r\n\r\n“Now I have got some news for you,” said Lydia, as they sat down to\r\ntable. “What do you think? It is excellent news, capital news, and about\r\na certain person that we all like.”\r\n\r\nJane and Elizabeth looked at each other, and the waiter was told that he\r\nneed not stay. Lydia laughed, and said,--\r\n\r\n“Ay, that is just like your formality and discretion. You thought the\r\nwaiter must not hear, as if he cared! I dare say he often hears worse\r\nthings said than I am going to say. But he is an ugly fellow! I am glad\r\nhe is gone. I never saw such a long chin in my life. Well, but now for\r\nmy news: it is about dear Wickham; too good for the waiter, is not it?\r\nThere is no danger of Wickham’s marrying Mary King--there’s for you! She\r\nis gone down to her uncle at Liverpool; gone to stay. Wickham is safe.”\r\n\r\n“And Mary King is safe!” added Elizabeth; “safe from a connection\r\nimprudent as to fortune.”\r\n\r\n“She is a great fool for going away, if she liked him.”\r\n\r\n“But I hope there is no strong attachment on either side,” said Jane.\r\n\r\n“I am sure there is not on _his_. I will answer for it, he never cared\r\nthree straws about her."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJRRD3TNE5A6AKAVXSRFT9RC","peer_label":"pride-and-prejudice","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJRRC2C7K6XERRJES8143XGV","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJRREY6ZWGAT4FYVDEM6VE2E","peer_label":"mr collins","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:58.451Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF153TPWJAW8CQK8BJTFG","peer_label":"rosings park","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"estate","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:58.451Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFHT0SJ9NB9PYQ25KBKAS","peer_label":"charlotte lucas 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