Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 14

After some discussion between the Bennet sisters, it was decided that Elizabeth would write to her mother the next morning, requesting that a carriage be sent for them both that day.Mrs. Bennet, however, had her wish to keep her daughters at Netherfield till next Tuesday, when Jane would be there for a full week, and before that she would not Glad they're back.Her answer, therefore, did not quite satisfy them, at least not to Elizabeth's wishes, for she had long desired to go home.Mrs. Bennet wrote that it was impossible for them to have a car before the next Tuesday, and she added that if Mr. Bingley and his sister were to keep them alone, she would very much like them to stay again. Stay longer. —However, Elizabeth had made up her mind not to stay any longer—she did not very much expect their master to keep them; to borrow a carriage from Mr. Bingley, and at last the two agreed to inform their master of their plan of leaving Netherfield that morning, and to mention the borrowing of the carriage.

Hearing the news that they were going to leave, the people in the master's family expressed a lot of concern and tried to persuade them to stay, hoping that they would stay at least one more day. Finally, Jiying was persuaded and agreed to stay until tomorrow.Miss Bingley now began to regret her words of dissuasion, for her jealousy and dislike for Elizabeth far outstripped her friendship for her sister.

Bingley was very upset when he heard that they were going back soon, and tried many times to persuade Miss Bennet that she was not yet fully recovered, and that it would be inappropriate for her to go away at once; If you do this right, you will no longer be shaken.

This is good news for Darcy - Elizabeth has been at Netherfield long enough.She attracted him more than he liked--and Miss Bingley was becoming more and more impolite to her, and her behavior to himself was more irritating to him than usual.He wisely reminded himself to be careful not to let even a sliver of affection show, lest Elizabeth should be complacent in thinking she could influence his happiness; It meant to him that on the last day of her stay here his behavior must have become very heavy between the choice of affirming or denying this expression.Now that he had made up his mind in this way, he hardly spoke to her all Saturday, although there was half an hour between the two of them, and he kept his head buried in his book. , didn't even look at her.

After Sunday's morning prayers, the scene of parting, which almost everyone was happy with, came at last.Miss Bingley's friendliness to Elizabeth increased rapidly during these last hours, and her friendship to Jane; at their parting, she first told Jane how glad she was to see her again, whether at Longbourn Nicerfield, then embraced her affectionately, and at the end she even shook hands with Elizabeth. —Elizabeth bid farewell to everyone joyfully.

At home they received little welcome from their mothers.Mrs. Bennet did not expect that they would be back so soon, and felt that their return now would be an inconvenience, and Jane must have another cold. —but their father, though he said nothing warmly, was delighted to see them; he had already felt the importance of the two sisters in the family.In the absence of Jane and Elizabeth, the chatter of the family sitting together in the evenings was much less lively, and the conversation lost almost all its meaning.

The sisters found that Mary was still studying her harmony and the essence of her humanity as before; she had excerpted some new aphorisms that were enviable, and she had given them new insights into old morals.Catherine and Lydia gave them both quite different news.Since last Wednesday, much has happened and new gossip in the regiments stationed there; several officers have recently dined with their uncle; Colonel Sturt was really going to be married.

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