Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 61

Hap­py for all her ma­ter­nal feel­ings was the day on which Mrs. Ben­net got rid of her two most de­serv­ing daugh­ters. With what de­light­ed pride she af­ter­wards vis­it­ed Mrs. Bin­gley, and talked of Mrs. Dar­cy, may be guessed. I wish I could say, for the sake of her fam­ily, that the ac­com­plish­ment of her earnest de­sire in the es­tab­lish­ment of so many of her chil­dren pro­duced so hap­py an ef­fect as to make her a sen­si­ble, ami­able, well-​in­formed wom­an for the rest of her life; though per­haps it was lucky for her hus­band, who might not have rel­ished do­mes­tic fe­lic­ity in so un­usu­al a form, that she still was oc­ca­sion­al­ly ner­vous and in­vari­ably sil­ly.

Mr. Ben­net missed his sec­ond daugh­ter ex­ceed­ing­ly; his af­fec­tion for her drew him of­ten­er from home than any­thing else could do. He de­light­ed in go­ing to Pem­ber­ley, es­pe­cial­ly when he was least ex­pect­ed.

Mr. Bin­gley and Jane re­mained at Nether­field on­ly a twelve­month. So near a vicin­ity to her moth­er and Mery­ton re­la­tions was not de­sir­able even to HIS easy tem­per, or HER af­fec­tion­ate heart. The dar­ling wish of his sis­ters was then grat­ified; he bought an es­tate in a neigh­bour­ing coun­ty to Der­byshire, and Jane and Eliz­abeth, in ad­di­tion to ev­ery oth­er source of hap­pi­ness, were with­in thir­ty miles of each oth­er.

Kit­ty, to her very ma­te­ri­al ad­van­tage, spent the chief of her time with her two el­der sis­ters. In so­ci­ety so su­pe­ri­or to what she had gen­er­al­ly known, her im­prove­ment was great. She was not of so un­govern­able a tem­per as Ly­dia; and, re­moved from the in­flu­ence of Ly­dia’s ex­am­ple, she be­came, by prop­er at­ten­tion and man­age­ment, less ir­ri­ta­ble, less ig­no­rant, and less in­sipid. From the fur­ther dis­ad­van­tage of Ly­dia’s so­ci­ety she was of course care­ful­ly kept, and though Mrs. Wick­ham fre­quent­ly in­vit­ed her to come and stay with her, with the promise of balls and young men, her fa­ther would nev­er con­sent to her go­ing.

Mary was the on­ly daugh­ter who re­mained at home; and she was nec­es­sar­ily drawn from the pur­suit of ac­com­plish­ments by Mrs. Ben­net’s be­ing quite un­able to sit alone. Mary was obliged to mix more with the world, but she could still mor­al­ize over ev­ery morn­ing vis­it; and as she was no longer mor­ti­fied by com­par­isons be­tween her sis­ters’ beau­ty and her own, it was sus­pect­ed by her fa­ther that she sub­mit­ted to the change with­out much re­luc­tance.

As for Wick­ham and Ly­dia, their char­ac­ters suf­fered no rev­olu­tion from the mar­riage of her sis­ters. He bore with phi­los­ophy the con­vic­tion that Eliz­abeth must now be­come ac­quaint­ed with what­ev­er of his in­grat­itude and false­hood had be­fore been un­known to her; and in spite of ev­ery thing, was not whol­ly with­out hope that Dar­cy might yet be pre­vailed on to make his for­tune. The con­grat­ula­to­ry let­ter which Eliz­abeth re­ceived from Ly­dia on her mar­riage, ex­plained to her that, by his wife at least, if not by him­self, such a hope was cher­ished. The let­ter was to this ef­fect:

“MY DEAR LIZZY,

“I wish you joy. If you love Mr. Dar­cy half as well as I do my dear Wick­ham, you must be very hap­py. It is a great com­fort to have you so rich, and when you have noth­ing else to do, I hope you will think of us. I am sure Wick­ham would like a place at court very much, and I do not think we shall have quite mon­ey enough to live up­on with­out some help. Any place would do, of about three or four hun­dred a year; but how­ev­er, do not speak to Mr. Dar­cy about it, if you had rather not.

“Yours, etc.”

As it hap­pened that Eliz­abeth had MUCH rather not, she en­deav­oured in her an­swer to put an end to ev­ery en­treaty and ex­pec­ta­tion of the kind. Such re­lief, how­ev­er, as it was in her pow­er to af­ford, by the prac­tice of what might be called econ­omy in her own pri­vate ex­pences, she fre­quent­ly sent them. It had al­ways been ev­ident to her that such an in­come as theirs, un­der the di­rec­tion of two per­sons so ex­trav­agant in their wants, and heed­less of the fu­ture, must be very in­suf­fi­cient to their sup­port; and when­ev­er they changed their quar­ters, ei­ther Jane or her­self were sure of be­ing ap­plied to for some lit­tle as­sis­tance to­wards dis­charg­ing their bills. Their man­ner of liv­ing, even when the restora­tion of peace dis­missed them to a home, was un­set­tled in the ex­treme. They were al­ways mov­ing from place to place in quest of a cheap sit­ua­tion, and al­ways spend­ing more than they ought. His af­fec­tion for her soon sunk in­to in­dif­fer­ence; her’s last­ed a lit­tle longer; and in spite of her youth and her man­ners, she re­tained all the claims to rep­uta­tion which her mar­riage had giv­en her.

Though Dar­cy could nev­er re­ceive HIM at Pem­ber­ley, yet, for Eliz­abeth’s sake, he as­sist­ed him fur­ther in his pro­fes­sion. Ly­dia was oc­ca­sion­al­ly a vis­itor there, when her hus­band was gone to en­joy him­self in Lon­don or Bath; and with the Bin­gleys they both of them fre­quent­ly staid so long, that even Bin­gley’s good hu­mour was over­come, and he pro­ceed­ed so far as to talk of giv­ing them a hint to be gone.

Miss Bin­gley was very deeply mor­ti­fied by Dar­cy’s mar­riage; but as she thought it ad­vis­able to re­tain the right of vis­it­ing at Pem­ber­ley, she dropt all her re­sent­ment; was fonder than ev­er of Geor­giana, al­most as at­ten­tive to Dar­cy as hereto­fore, and paid off ev­ery ar­rear of ci­vil­ity to Eliz­abeth.

Pem­ber­ley was now Geor­giana’s home; and the at­tach­ment of the sis­ters was ex­act­ly what Dar­cy had hoped to see. They were able to love each oth­er even as well as they in­tend­ed. Geor­giana had the high­est opin­ion in the world of Eliz­abeth; though at first she of­ten lis­tened with an as­ton­ish­ment bor­der­ing on alarm at her live­ly, sportive, man­ner of talk­ing to her broth­er. He, who had al­ways in­spired in her­self a re­spect which al­most over­came her af­fec­tion, she now saw the ob­ject of open pleas­antry. Her mind re­ceived knowl­edge which had nev­er be­fore fall­en in her way. By Eliz­abeth’s in­struc­tions, she be­gan to com­pre­hend that a wom­an may take lib­er­ties with her hus­band which a broth­er will not al­ways al­low in a sis­ter more than ten years younger than him­self.

La­dy Cather­ine was ex­treme­ly in­dig­nant on the mar­riage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the gen­uine frank­ness of her char­ac­ter in her re­ply to the let­ter which an­nounced its ar­range­ment, she sent him lan­guage so very abu­sive, es­pe­cial­ly of Eliz­abeth, that for some time all in­ter­course was at an end. But at length, by Eliz­abeth’s per­sua­sion, he was pre­vailed on to over­look the of­fence, and seek a rec­on­cil­ia­tion; and, af­ter a lit­tle fur­ther re­sis­tance on the part of his aunt, her re­sent­ment gave way, ei­ther to her af­fec­tion for him, or her cu­rios­ity to see how his wife con­duct­ed her­self; and she con­de­scend­ed to wait on them at Pem­ber­ley, in spite of that pol­lu­tion which its woods had re­ceived, not mere­ly from the pres­ence of such a mis­tress, but the vis­its of her un­cle and aunt from the city.

With the Gar­diners, they were al­ways on the most in­ti­mate terms. Dar­cy, as well as Eliz­abeth, re­al­ly loved them; and they were both ev­er sen­si­ble of the warmest grat­itude to­wards the per­sons who, by bring­ing her in­to Der­byshire, had been the means of unit­ing them.

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