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CHAPTER XVIII
he first week of their return was soon gone. The second
began. 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 eatdrinkand sleepand
pursue the usual course of their employments. Very frequently
were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and Lydia
whose own misery was extremeand who could not comprehend
such hard-heartedness in any of the family.
‘Good Heaven
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would they often exclaim in the bitterness of woe. ‘How can you be
smiling soLizzy?’
Their affectionate mother shared all their grief; she remem-
bered what she had herself endured on a similar occasionfive and
twenty years ago.
‘I am sure’ said she‘I cried for two days together when Colonel
Millar’s regiment went away. I thought I should have broke my
heart.’
‘I am sure I shall break mine’
said Lydia.
‘If one could but go to Brighton
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‘Ohyes!—if one could but go to Brighton! But papa is so
disagreeable.’
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