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Two days after Mr.Be's return,as Jane and Elizabeth were walking together in the shrubbery behind the house,they saw the housekeepering towards them, and, cluding that she came to call them to their mother, went forward to meet her; but, instead of the expected summons, when they approached her, she said to Miss Be,“I beg your pardon,madam,for interrupting you, but I was in hopes you might have got some good news from town,so I took the liberty ofing to ask.”
“What do you mean,Hill?We have heard nothing from town.”
“Dear madam,”cried Mrs. Hill, i astonishment,“don't you know there is an expresse for master frardiner? He has beehis half-hour,and master has had a letter.”
Away ran the girls,too eager to get in to have time for speech. They ran through the vestibule into the breakfast-room; from theo the library;their father was iher;and they were on the point of seeking him upstairs with their mother,when they were met by the butler,who said:
“If you are looking for my master,ma'am,he is walking towards the little copse.”
Upon this information,they instantly passed through the hall once more, and ran across thewn after their father, who was deliberately pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock.
Jane,who was not so light nor so mu the habit of running as Elizabeth, soongged behind, while her sister, panting for breath,came up with him,and eagerly cried out:
“Oh, papa, what news—what news? Have you heard from my uncle?”
“Yes I have had a letter from him by express.”
“Well,and what news does it bring—good or bad?”
“What is there of good to be expected?”said he, taking the letter from his pocket.“But perhaps you would like to read it.”
Elizabeth impatiently caught it from his hand.Jane now came up.“Read it aloud,”said their father,“for I hardly know myself what it is about.”
Gracechurch Street,Monday,August 2.
“My dear Brother,
“Atst I am able to send you some tidings of my niece, and such as,upon the whole,I hope it will give you satisfa.Soon after you left me on Saturday,I was fortunate enough to find out in art of London they were.The particrs I reserve till we meet;it is enough to know they are discovered.I have seen them both—”
“Then it is as I always hoped,”cried Jahey are married!”
Elizabeth read on:
“I have seen them both.They are not married,nor I find there was any iion of being so; but if you are willing to perform the es which I have veo make on your side,I hope it will not be long before they are.All that is required of you is,to assure to your daughter,by settlement,her equal share of the five thousand pounds secured among your children after the decease of yourself and my sister;and,moreover,to enter into an e of allowing her,during your life,one hundred pounds per annum.These are ditions which,sidering everything, I had ation inplying with,as far as I thought myself privileged, for you. I shall send this by express, that no time may be lost in bringing me your answer. You will easilyprehend, from these particrs, that Mr. Wickham's circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to be.The world has been deceived in that resped I am happy to say there will be some little money,even when all his debts are discharged,to settle on my nie addition to her own fortune.If,as I clude will be the case,you send me full powers to a your hroughout the whole of this business,I will immediately give dires to Haggerston for preparing a proper settlement.There will not be the smallest asion for y to town again;therefore stay quiet at Longbourn,and depend on my diligend care.Send back your answer as fast as you , and be careful to write explicitly.We have judged it best that my niece should be married from this house, of which I hope you will approve.Shees to us to-day.I shall write again as soon as anything more is determined on.Yours,etc.,
“EDW.GARDINER.”
“Is it possible?”cried Elizabeth,when she had finished.“ it be possible that he will marry her?”
“Wickham is not so undeserving,then,as we thought him,”said her sister.“My dear father,I gratte you.”
“And have you answered the letter?”cried Elizabeth.
“No;but it must be done soon.”
Most early did she thereaty him to lose no more time before he wrote.
“Oh!my dear father,”she cried,e bad write immediately. sider how important every moment is in such a case.”
“Let me write for you,”said Jane,“if you dislike the trouble yourself.”
“I dislike it very much,”he replied;“but it must be done.”
And so sayiurned back with them,and walked towards the house.
“And may I ask—”said Elizabeth;“but the terms, I suppose, must beplied with.”
“plied with!I am only ashamed of his asking so little.”
“And they must marry!Yet he is such a man!”
“Yes,yes,they must marry.There is nothing else to be do there are two things that I want very much to know;one is,how much money your uncle hasid down t it about;and the other,how am I ever to pay him.”
“Money!My uncle!”cried Jane,“what do you mean,sir?”
“I mean,that no man in his proper senses would marry Lydia on so slight a temptation as one hundred a year during my life,and fifty after I am gone.”
“That is very true,”said Elizabeth;“though it had not urred to me before.His debts to be discharged,and something still to remain!Oh!it must be my uncle's doings!Generous,good man,I am afraid he has distressed himself.A small sum could not do all this.”
“No,”said her father;“Wickham's a fool if he takes her with a farthihahousand pounds.I should be sorry to think so ill of him,in the very beginning of our rtionship.”
“Ten thousand pounds!Heaven forbid!How is half such a sum to be repaid?”快眼看书小说阅读_www.bookcu.com
“What do you mean,Hill?We have heard nothing from town.”
“Dear madam,”cried Mrs. Hill, i astonishment,“don't you know there is an expresse for master frardiner? He has beehis half-hour,and master has had a letter.”
Away ran the girls,too eager to get in to have time for speech. They ran through the vestibule into the breakfast-room; from theo the library;their father was iher;and they were on the point of seeking him upstairs with their mother,when they were met by the butler,who said:
“If you are looking for my master,ma'am,he is walking towards the little copse.”
Upon this information,they instantly passed through the hall once more, and ran across thewn after their father, who was deliberately pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock.
Jane,who was not so light nor so mu the habit of running as Elizabeth, soongged behind, while her sister, panting for breath,came up with him,and eagerly cried out:
“Oh, papa, what news—what news? Have you heard from my uncle?”
“Yes I have had a letter from him by express.”
“Well,and what news does it bring—good or bad?”
“What is there of good to be expected?”said he, taking the letter from his pocket.“But perhaps you would like to read it.”
Elizabeth impatiently caught it from his hand.Jane now came up.“Read it aloud,”said their father,“for I hardly know myself what it is about.”
Gracechurch Street,Monday,August 2.
“My dear Brother,
“Atst I am able to send you some tidings of my niece, and such as,upon the whole,I hope it will give you satisfa.Soon after you left me on Saturday,I was fortunate enough to find out in art of London they were.The particrs I reserve till we meet;it is enough to know they are discovered.I have seen them both—”
“Then it is as I always hoped,”cried Jahey are married!”
Elizabeth read on:
“I have seen them both.They are not married,nor I find there was any iion of being so; but if you are willing to perform the es which I have veo make on your side,I hope it will not be long before they are.All that is required of you is,to assure to your daughter,by settlement,her equal share of the five thousand pounds secured among your children after the decease of yourself and my sister;and,moreover,to enter into an e of allowing her,during your life,one hundred pounds per annum.These are ditions which,sidering everything, I had ation inplying with,as far as I thought myself privileged, for you. I shall send this by express, that no time may be lost in bringing me your answer. You will easilyprehend, from these particrs, that Mr. Wickham's circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to be.The world has been deceived in that resped I am happy to say there will be some little money,even when all his debts are discharged,to settle on my nie addition to her own fortune.If,as I clude will be the case,you send me full powers to a your hroughout the whole of this business,I will immediately give dires to Haggerston for preparing a proper settlement.There will not be the smallest asion for y to town again;therefore stay quiet at Longbourn,and depend on my diligend care.Send back your answer as fast as you , and be careful to write explicitly.We have judged it best that my niece should be married from this house, of which I hope you will approve.Shees to us to-day.I shall write again as soon as anything more is determined on.Yours,etc.,
“EDW.GARDINER.”
“Is it possible?”cried Elizabeth,when she had finished.“ it be possible that he will marry her?”
“Wickham is not so undeserving,then,as we thought him,”said her sister.“My dear father,I gratte you.”
“And have you answered the letter?”cried Elizabeth.
“No;but it must be done soon.”
Most early did she thereaty him to lose no more time before he wrote.
“Oh!my dear father,”she cried,e bad write immediately. sider how important every moment is in such a case.”
“Let me write for you,”said Jane,“if you dislike the trouble yourself.”
“I dislike it very much,”he replied;“but it must be done.”
And so sayiurned back with them,and walked towards the house.
“And may I ask—”said Elizabeth;“but the terms, I suppose, must beplied with.”
“plied with!I am only ashamed of his asking so little.”
“And they must marry!Yet he is such a man!”
“Yes,yes,they must marry.There is nothing else to be do there are two things that I want very much to know;one is,how much money your uncle hasid down t it about;and the other,how am I ever to pay him.”
“Money!My uncle!”cried Jane,“what do you mean,sir?”
“I mean,that no man in his proper senses would marry Lydia on so slight a temptation as one hundred a year during my life,and fifty after I am gone.”
“That is very true,”said Elizabeth;“though it had not urred to me before.His debts to be discharged,and something still to remain!Oh!it must be my uncle's doings!Generous,good man,I am afraid he has distressed himself.A small sum could not do all this.”
“No,”said her father;“Wickham's a fool if he takes her with a farthihahousand pounds.I should be sorry to think so ill of him,in the very beginning of our rtionship.”
“Ten thousand pounds!Heaven forbid!How is half such a sum to be repaid?”快眼看书小说阅读_www.bookcu.com