“Oh well!it is just as he chooses.Nobody wants him to come. Though I shall always say he used my daughter extremely ill;and if I was her,I would not have put up with it.Well,my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart;and then he will be sorry for what he has done.”
But as Elizabeth could not receive comfort from any such expectation,she made no answer.
“Well, Lizzy,”contued her mother,soon afterwards,“and so the Collses live very comfortable, do they? Well,well,I only hope it will last.And what sort of table do they keep?Charlotte is an excellent manager,I dare say. If she is half as sharp as her mother,she is savg enough. There is nothg extravagant their housekeepg,I dare say.”
“No,nothg at all.”
“A great deal of good management, depend upon it.Yes, yes.They will take care not to outrun their come. They will never be distressed for money.Well, much good may it do them!And so, I suppose, they often talk of havg Longbourn when your father is dead.They look upon it as quite their own,I dare say,whenever that happens.”
“It was a subject which they could not mention before me.”
“No; it would have been strange if they had; but I make no doubt they often talk of it between themselves.Well,if they can be easy with an estate that is not lawfully their own,so much the better.I should be ashamed of havg one that was only entailed on me.”
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