..me"..me/傲慢与偏见最新章节！
“How nicely we are all crammed ,”cried Lydia.“I am glad I bought my bonnet, if it is only for the fun of havg another bandbox!Well, now let us be quite comfortable and snug, and talk and laugh all the way home.And the first place,let us hear what has happened to you all sce you went away.Have you seen any pleasant men?Have you had any flirtg?I was great hopes that one of you would have got a husband before you came back. Jane will be quite an old maid soon,I declare.She is almost three-and-twenty!Lord,how ashamed I should be of not beg married before three-and-twenty! My aunt Phillips wants you so to get husbands,you can''t thk.She says Lizzy had better have taken Mr.Colls;but I do not thk there would have been any fun it.Lord!how I should like to be married before any of you;and then I would chaperon you about to all the balls.Dear me!we had such a good piece of fun the other day at Colonel Forster''s.Kitty and me were to spend the day there,and Mrs.Forster promised to have a little dance the eveng; (by the bye, Mrs. Forster and me are such friends!)and so she asked the two Harrgtons to come, but Harriet was ill, and so Pen was forced to come by herself; and then, what do you thk we did?We dressed up Chamberlayne woman''s clothes on purpose to pass for a lady, only thk what fun!Not a soul knew of it,but Colonel and Mrs. Forster,and Kitty and me,except my aunt,for we were forced to borrow one of her gowns; and you cannot image how well he looked!When Denny,and Wickham,and Pratt,and two or three more of the men came , they did not know him the least. Lord!how I laughed!and so did Mrs.Forster.I thought I should have died.And that made the men suspect somethg,and then they soon found out what was the matter.”
With such kds of histories of their parties and good jokes,did Lydia,assisted by Kitty''s hts and additions,endeavour to amuse her companions all the way to Longbourn. Elizabeth listened as little as she could, but there was no escapg the frequent mention of Wickham''s name.
Their reception at home was most kd.Mrs.Bennet rejoiced to see Jane undimished beauty;and more than once durg dner did Mr.Bennet say voluntarily to Elizabeth:
“I am glad you are come back,Lizzy.”
Their party the dg-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects that occupied them:Lady Lucas was quirg of Maria, across the table, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter;Mrs.Bennet was doubly engaged,on one hand collectg an account of the present fashions from Jane,who sat some way below her,and,on the other,retailg them all to the younger Miss Lucases; and Lydia, a voice rather louder than any other person''s,was enumeratg the various pleasures of the morng to anybody who would hear her.
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