e, it would have been more for the advantage of versation had Miss Lydia Bee upoown; or, as the happiest alternative,been secluded from the world, in some distant farmhouse.But there was much to be talked of in marrying her; and the good-natured wishes for her well-doing which had proceeded before from all the spiteful olddies ion lost but a little of their spirit in this ge of circumstances,because with su husband her misery was sidered certain.
It was a fht since Mrs.Be had been downstairs;but on this happy day she again took her seat at the head of her table, and in spirits oppressively high. iment of shame gave a damp to her triumph.The marriage of a daughter,which had been the first object of her wishes since Jane was sixteen,was now on the point of omplishment, ahoughts and her words ran wholly on those attendants of elegant nuptials,fine muslins, new carriages, and servants. She was busily searg through the neighbourhood for a proper situation for her daughter,and, without knowing or sidering what their ie might be, rejected many as defit in size and importance.
“Haye Park might do,”said she,“if the Gouldings could quit it—or the great house at Stoke,if the drawing-room wererger;but Ashworth is too far off!I could not bear to have her ten miles from me;and as for Pulvis Lodge,the attics are dreadful.”
Her husband allowed her to talk on without interruption while the servants remained. But when they had withdrawn, he said to her:“Mrs.Be,before you t
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