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The first week of their return was soon gone.

It was the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in the

neighbourhood were drooping apace. The dejection was almost universal.

The elder Miss Bennets alone were still able to eat, drink, and sleep, and pursue

Very frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and Lydia,

whose own misery was extreme, and who could not comprehend such hard-heartedness in any

"Good Heaven! what is to become of us? What are we to do?" would they often

exclaim in the bitterness of woe. "How can you be smiling so, Lizzy?"

Their affectionate mother shared all their grief; she remembered what she had herself

endured on a similar occasion, five-and- twenty years ago.

"I am sure," said she, "I cried for two days together when Colonel Miller's

regiment went away. I thought I should have broken my heart."

"I am sure I shall break mine," said Lydia.

"If one could but go to Brighton!" observed Mrs. Bennet.

"Oh, yes!--if one could but go to Brighton! But papa is so disagreeable."

"A little sea-bathing would set me up forever."

"And my aunt Phillips is sure it would do me a great deal of good," added Kitty.

Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through Longbourn

House. Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them; but

She felt anew the justice of Mr. Darcy's objections; and never had she been so much

disposed to pardon his interference in the views of his friend.

But the gloom of Lydia's prospect was shortly cleared away; for she received an

invitation from Mrs. Forster, the wife of the colonel of the regiment, to accompany

This invaluable friend was a very young woman, and very lately married.

A resemblance in good humour and good spirits had recommended her and Lydia to

each other, and out of their three months' acquaintance they had been intimate two.

The rapture of Lydia on this occasion, her adoration of Mrs. Forster, the delight of

Mrs. Bennet, and the mortification of Kitty, are scarcely to be described.

Wholly inattentive to her sister's feelings, Lydia flew about the house in

restless ecstasy, calling for everyone's congratulations, and laughing and talking

luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repined at her fate in terms as

"I cannot see why Mrs. Forster should not ask me as well as Lydia," said she, "Though

I have just as much right to be asked as she has, and more too, for I am two years

older." In vain did Elizabeth attempt to make her

reasonable, and Jane to make her resigned.

As for Elizabeth herself, this invitation was so far from exciting in her the same

feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she considered it as the death warrant of

latter; and detestable as such a step must make her were it known, she could not help

secretly advising her father not to let her go.

She represented to him all the improprieties of Lydia's general behaviour,

the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of such a woman as Mrs.

Forster, and the probability of her being

yet more imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must be

greater than at home. He heard her attentively, and then said:

"Lydia will never be easy until she has exposed herself in some public place or

other, and we can never expect her to do it with so little expense or inconvenience to

her family as under the present circumstances."

"If you were aware," said Elizabeth, "of the very great disadvantage to us all which

must arise from the public notice of Lydia's unguarded and imprudent manner--

nay, which has already arisen from it, I am

sure you would judge differently in the affair."

"Already arisen?" repeated Mr. Bennet. "What, has she frightened away some of your

Poor little Lizzy! But do not be cast down.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not

Come, let me see the list of pitiful fellows who have been kept aloof by Lydia's

It is not of particular, but of general evils, which I am now complaining.

Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild

volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character.

If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits,

and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her

life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment.

Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt

that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and

meanest degree of flirtation; without any

attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and

emptiness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal

contempt which her rage for admiration will excite.

In this danger Kitty also is comprehended. She will follow wherever Lydia leads.

Vain, ignorant, idle, and absolutely uncontrolled!

Oh! my dear father, can you suppose it possible that they will not be censured and

despised wherever they are known, and that their sisters will not be often involved in

Mr. Bennet saw that her whole heart was in the subject, and affectionately taking her

hand said in reply: "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

We shall have no peace at Longbourn if Lydia does not go to Brighton.

Colonel 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 a common flirt than she has been

here. The officers will find women better worth

Let us hope, therefore, that her being there may teach her her own insignificance.

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