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He has\r\n     more to give.\r\n\r\n“Yours sincerely,” etc.\r\n\r\nMiss Bingley’s congratulations to her brother on his approaching\r\nmarriage were all that was affectionate and insincere. She wrote even to\r\nJane on the occasion, to express her delight, and repeat all her former\r\nprofessions of regard. Jane was not deceived, but she was affected; and\r\nthough feeling no reliance on her, could not help writing her a much\r\nkinder answer than she knew was deserved.\r\n\r\nThe joy which Miss Darcy expressed on receiving similar information was\r\nas sincere as her brother’s in sending it. Four sides of paper were\r\ninsufficient to contain all her delight, and all her earnest desire of\r\nbeing loved by her sister.\r\n\r\nBefore any answer could arrive from Mr. Collins, or any congratulations\r\nto Elizabeth from his wife, the Longbourn family heard that the\r\nCollinses were come themselves to Lucas Lodge. The reason of this\r\nsudden removal was soon evident. Lady Catherine had been rendered so\r\nexceedingly angry by the contents of her nephew’s letter, that\r\nCharlotte, really rejoicing in the match, was anxious to get away till\r\nthe storm was blown over. At such a moment, the arrival of her friend\r\nwas a sincere pleasure to Elizabeth, though in the course of their\r\nmeetings she must sometimes think the pleasure dearly bought, when she\r\nsaw Mr. Darcy exposed to all the parading and obsequious civility of her\r\nhusband. He bore it, however, with admirable calmness. He could even\r\nlisten to Sir William Lucas, when he complimented him on carrying away\r\nthe brightest jewel of the country, and expressed his hopes of their all\r\nmeeting frequently at St. James’s, with very decent composure. If he did\r\nshrug his shoulders, it was not till Sir William was out of sight.\r\n\r\nMrs. Philips’s vulgarity was another, and, perhaps, a greater tax on his\r\nforbearance; and though Mrs. Philips, as well as her sister, stood in\r\ntoo much awe of him to speak with the familiarity which Bingley’s\r\ngood-humour encouraged; yet, whenever she _did_ speak, she must be\r\nvulgar. Nor was her respect for him, though it made her more quiet, at\r\nall likely to make her more elegant. Elizabeth did all she could to\r\nshield him from the frequent notice of either, and was ever anxious to\r\nkeep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might\r\nconverse without mortification; and though the uncomfortable feelings\r\narising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its\r\npleasure, it added to the hope of the future; and she looked forward\r\nwith delight to the time when they should be removed from society so\r\nlittle pleasing to either, to all the comfort and elegance of their\r\nfamily party at Pemberley.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER LXI.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration]\r\n\r\nHappy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got\r\nrid of her two most deserving daughters. With what delighted pride she\r\nafterwards visited Mrs. Bingley, and talked of Mrs. Darcy, may be\r\nguessed. I wish I could say, for the sake of her family, that the\r\naccomplishment of her earnest desire in the establishment of so many of\r\nher children produced so happy an effect as to make her a sensible,\r\namiable, well-informed woman for the rest of her life; though, perhaps,\r\nit was lucky for her husband, who might not have relished domestic\r\nfelicity in so unusual a form, that she still was occasionally nervous\r\nand invariably silly.\r\n\r\nMr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her\r\ndrew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in\r\ngoing to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.\r\n\r\nMr. Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a twelvemonth. So near\r\na vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not desirable even to\r\n_his_ easy temper, or _her_ affectionate heart. The darling wish of his\r\nsisters was then gratified: he bought an estate in a neighbouring county\r\nto Derbyshire; and Jane and Elizabeth, in addition to every other source\r\nof happiness, were within thirty miles of each other.\r\n\r\nKitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with\r\nher two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally\r\nknown, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a\r\ntemper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia’s example, she\r\nbecame, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less\r\nignorant, and less insipid. From the further disadvantage of Lydia’s\r\nsociety she was of course carefully kept; and though Mrs. Wickham\r\nfrequently invited her to come and stay with her, with the promise of\r\nballs and young men, her father would never consent to her going.\r\n\r\nMary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily\r\ndrawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet’s being quite\r\nunable to sit alone. Mary was obliged to mix more with the world, but\r\nshe could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no\r\nlonger mortified by comparisons between her sisters’ beauty and her own,\r\nit was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without\r\nmuch reluctance.\r\n\r\nAs for Wickham and Lydia, their characters suffered no revolution from\r\nthe marriage of her sisters. He bore with philosophy the conviction that\r\nElizabeth must now become acquainted with whatever of his ingratitude\r\nand falsehood had before been unknown to her; and, in spite of\r\neverything, was not wholly without hope that Darcy might yet be\r\nprevailed on to make his fortune. The congratulatory letter which\r\nElizabeth received from Lydia on her marriage explained to her that, by\r\nhis wife at least, if not by himself, such a hope was cherished. The\r\nletter was to this effect:--\r\n\r\n     /* “My dear Lizzy, */\r\n\r\n     “I wish you joy. If you love Mr. Darcy half so well as I do my dear\r\n     Wickham, you must be very happy. It is a great comfort to have you\r\n     so rich; and when you have nothing else to do, I hope you will\r\n     think of us. I am sure Wickham would like a place at court very\r\n     much; and I do not think we shall have quite money enough to live\r\n     upon without some help. Any place would do of about three or four\r\n     hundred a year; but, however, do not speak to Mr. Darcy about it,\r\n     if you had rather not.\r\n\r\n“Yours,” etc.\r\n\r\nAs it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in\r\nher answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of the kind.\r\nSuch relief, however, as it was in her power to afford, by the practice\r\nof what might be called economy in her own private expenses, she\r\nfrequently sent them. It had always been evident to her that such an\r\nincome as theirs, under the direction of two persons so extravagant in\r\ntheir wants, and heedless of the future, must be very insufficient to\r\ntheir support; and whenever they changed their quarters, either Jane or\r\nherself were sure of being applied to for some little assistance towards\r\ndischarging their bills. Their manner of living, even when the\r\nrestoration of peace dismissed them to a home, was unsettled in the\r\nextreme. They were always moving from place to place in quest of a\r\ncheap situation, and always spending more than they ought. His affection\r\nfor her soon sunk into indifference: hers lasted a little longer; and,\r\nin spite of her youth and her manners, she retained all the claims to\r\nreputation which her marriage had given her."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJRRD3TNE5A6AKAVXSRFT9RC","peer_label":"pride-and-prejudice","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJRRC2C7K6XERRJES8143XGV","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJRREYW2V9QH9GNRQRJT67GK","peer_label":"mr bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:41.839Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREY6ZWGAT4FYVDEM6VE2E","peer_label":"mr 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