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The first week of their return was soon gohe sed began. It was thest of the regiment's stay ion,and all the youngdies in the neighbourhood were drooping apace.The deje was almost universal.The elder Miss Bes alone were still able to eat,drink,and sleep,and pursue the usual course of their employments.Very frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and Lydia,whose own misery was extreme, and who could notprehend such hard-heartedness in any of the family.
“Good Heaven!what is to be of us?What are we to do?”would they often exim iterness of woe.“How you be smiling so,Lizzy?”
Their affeate mother shared all their grief;she remembered what she had herself endured on a simr asion, five-and-twenty years ago.
“I am sure,”said she,“I cried for two days together when el Miller's regime away. I thought I should have broken my heart.”
“I am sure I shall break mine,”said Lydia.
“If one could but go thton!”observed Mrs. Be.
“Oh,yes!—if one could but go thton!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 ofmentations resoundiually through Longbourn House. Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them;but all sense of pleasure was lost in shame.She felt ahe justir. Darcy's objes; and never had she been so much disposed to pardon his interferen 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 el of the regiment, to ompahton. This invaluable friend was a very young woman, aely married.A resemn good humour and good spirits had rmended her and Lydia to each other,and out of their three months' acquaintahey had been intimate two.
The rapture of Lydia on this asion, her adoration of Mrs. Forster, the delight of Mrs. Be, and the mortification of Kitty, are scarcely to be described.Wholly iive to her sister's feelings, Lydia flew about the house iless ecstasy, calling for everyone's grattions, andughing and talking with more violehan ever;whilst the luckless Kitty tinued in the parlour repi her fate in terms as unreasonable as her ent eevish.
“I ot see why Mrs. Forster should not ask me as well as Lydia,”said she,“Though I am not her particr friend.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 Jao make her resigned.As for Elizabeth herself,this invitation was so far from exg ihe same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she sidered it as the death warrant of all possibility ofmon sense for thetter;aable as such a step must make her were it known,she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her go.She represeo 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 bei more imprudent with such apanion 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 ce or other,and we ever expect her to do it with so little expense or invenieo her family as uhe present circumstances.”
“If you were aware,”said Elizabeth,“of the very great disadvao us all which must arise from the publiotice 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 ariseed Mr. Be.“What, has she frightened away some of your lovers? Poor little Lizzy! But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as ot bear to be ected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.e, let me see the list of pitiful fellows who have bee aloof by Lydia's folly.”
“Indeed you are mistaken. I have no sujuries to resent. It is not of particr, but of general evils, which I am nowining. Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild vtility,the assurand disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character. Excuse me, for I must speak inly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of cheg her exuberant spirits, and of teag her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reae.Her character will be fixed,and she will,at sixteehe most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous;a flirt,too,in the worst and mea degree of flirtation; without any attra beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorand emptiness of her mind,wholly uo ward off any portion of that universal pt which her rage for admiration will excite. In this danger Kitty also isprehended. She will follow wherever Lydia leads.Vain,ignorant,idle,and absolutely untrolled!Oh!my dear father, you suppose it possible that they will not be sured and despised wherever they are known, and that their sisters will not be often involved in the disgrace?”
Mr. Be saw that her whole heart was in the subject, and affeately taking her hand said in reply:快眼看书小说阅读_www.bookcu.com
“Good Heaven!what is to be of us?What are we to do?”would they often exim iterness of woe.“How you be smiling so,Lizzy?”
Their affeate mother shared all their grief;she remembered what she had herself endured on a simr asion, five-and-twenty years ago.
“I am sure,”said she,“I cried for two days together when el Miller's regime away. I thought I should have broken my heart.”
“I am sure I shall break mine,”said Lydia.
“If one could but go thton!”observed Mrs. Be.
“Oh,yes!—if one could but go thton!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 ofmentations resoundiually through Longbourn House. Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them;but all sense of pleasure was lost in shame.She felt ahe justir. Darcy's objes; and never had she been so much disposed to pardon his interferen 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 el of the regiment, to ompahton. This invaluable friend was a very young woman, aely married.A resemn good humour and good spirits had rmended her and Lydia to each other,and out of their three months' acquaintahey had been intimate two.
The rapture of Lydia on this asion, her adoration of Mrs. Forster, the delight of Mrs. Be, and the mortification of Kitty, are scarcely to be described.Wholly iive to her sister's feelings, Lydia flew about the house iless ecstasy, calling for everyone's grattions, andughing and talking with more violehan ever;whilst the luckless Kitty tinued in the parlour repi her fate in terms as unreasonable as her ent eevish.
“I ot see why Mrs. Forster should not ask me as well as Lydia,”said she,“Though I am not her particr friend.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 Jao make her resigned.As for Elizabeth herself,this invitation was so far from exg ihe same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she sidered it as the death warrant of all possibility ofmon sense for thetter;aable as such a step must make her were it known,she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her go.She represeo 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 bei more imprudent with such apanion 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 ce or other,and we ever expect her to do it with so little expense or invenieo her family as uhe present circumstances.”
“If you were aware,”said Elizabeth,“of the very great disadvao us all which must arise from the publiotice 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 ariseed Mr. Be.“What, has she frightened away some of your lovers? Poor little Lizzy! But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as ot bear to be ected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.e, let me see the list of pitiful fellows who have bee aloof by Lydia's folly.”
“Indeed you are mistaken. I have no sujuries to resent. It is not of particr, but of general evils, which I am nowining. Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild vtility,the assurand disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character. Excuse me, for I must speak inly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of cheg her exuberant spirits, and of teag her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reae.Her character will be fixed,and she will,at sixteehe most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous;a flirt,too,in the worst and mea degree of flirtation; without any attra beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorand emptiness of her mind,wholly uo ward off any portion of that universal pt which her rage for admiration will excite. In this danger Kitty also isprehended. She will follow wherever Lydia leads.Vain,ignorant,idle,and absolutely untrolled!Oh!my dear father, you suppose it possible that they will not be sured and despised wherever they are known, and that their sisters will not be often involved in the disgrace?”
Mr. Be saw that her whole heart was in the subject, and affeately taking her hand said in reply:快眼看书小说阅读_www.bookcu.com