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“ Mary and Kitty have been very kind , and would have shared in every fatigue , I am sure , but I did not think it right for either of them . Kitty is slight and delicate , and Mary studies so much that her hours of repose should not be broken in on . My aunt Philips came to Longbourn on Tuesday , after my father went away ; and was so good as to stay till Thursday with me . She was of great use and comfort to us all , and Lady Lucas has been very kind : she walked here on Wednesday morning to condole with us , and offered her services , or any of her daughters , if they could be of use to us . ” “ She had better have stayed at home , ” cried Elizabeth : “ perhaps she meant well , but , under such a misfortune as this , one cannot see too little of one’s neighbours . Assistance is impossible ; condolence , insufferable . Let them triumph over us at a distance , and be satisfied . ” She then proceeded to inquire into the measures which her father had intended to pursue , while in town , for the recovery of his daughter . “ He meant , I believe , ” replied Jane , “ to go to Epsom , the place where they last changed horses , see the postilions , and try if anything could be made out from them . His principal object must be to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham . It had come with a fare from London ; and as he thought the circumstance of a gentleman and lady’s removing from one carriage into another might be remarked , he meant to make inquiries at Clapham . If he could anyhow discover at what house the coachman had before set down his fare , he determined to make inquiries there , and hoped it might not be impossible to find out the stand and number of the coach . I do not know of any other designs that he had formed ; but he was in such a hurry to be gone , and his spirits so greatly discomposed , that I had difficulty in finding out even so much as this . ” CHAPTER XLVIII . THE whole party were in hopes of a letter from Mr . Bennet the next morning , but the post came in without bringing a single line from him . His family knew him to be , on all common occasions , a most negligent and dilatory correspondent ; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion . They were forced to conclude , that he had no pleasing intelligence to send ; but even of that they would have been glad to be certain . Mr . Gardiner had waited only for the letters before he set off . When he was gone , they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on ; and their uncle promised , at parting , to prevail on Mr . Bennet to return to Longbourn as soon as he could , to the great consolation of his sister , who considered it as the only security for her husband’s not being killed in a duel .
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