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the shrubbery behind the house,they saw the housekeeper ing towards them, and, concluding that she came to call them to their mother, went forward to meet her; but, instead of the expected summons, when they approached her, she said to Miss Ben,“I beg your pardon,madam,for interrupting you, but I was in hopes you might have got some good news from town,so I took the liberty of ing to ask.”
“What do you mean,Hill?Weletter.”
; from thence to the library;their father was in neither;and they were on the point of seeking him upstairs with their mother,when they were met by the butler,who said:
“If you are looking for my master,ma'am,he is walking towards the little copse.”
Upon this information,they instantly passed through the hall once more, and ran across the lawn after their father, who was deliberately pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock.
Jane,who was not so light nor so much in the habit of running as Elizabeth, soon lagged behind, while her sister, panting for breath,came up with him,and eagerly cried out:
“Oh, papa, what news—what news? Have you heard from my uncle?”
“Yes I have had a letter from him by express.”
“Well,and what news does it bring—good or bad?”
“What is there of gt it is about.”
Gracechurch Street,Monday,August 2.
“My dear Brother,
“At last I am able to send you some tidings of my niece, a;it is enough to know they are discovered.I have seen them both—”
“Then it is as I always hoped,”cried Jane;“they are marbeing so; but if you are willing to perform the engagements which I have ventured tottlement,her equal share of the five thousand pounds secured among your children after the decease of yourself and my sister;and,moreover,to enter into an engagementsitation inickham's circumst;and I am happy to say there will be some little money,even when all his debts are dt in your name throughout the whole of this business,I will immediately g again;therefossred the letter?”cried Elizabeth.
“No;but it must be done soon.”
Most earnestly did she then entreaty him to lose no more time before he wrote.
“Let me write for you,”said Jane,“if you dislike the trouble yourself.”
“I dislike it very much,”he replied;“but it must be done.”
And so saying,he turned back with them,and walked towards the house.
“And may I ask—”said Elizabeth;“but the terms, I suppose, must be plied with.”
“Complied with!I am only ashamed of his asking so little.”
“And they mustI want very much to know;one is,how much money your uncle has laid down to bring it about;and the other,how am I ever to pay him.”
“Money!My uncle!”cried Jane,“what do you mean,sir?”
“I mean,that no man in his proper senses would marry Lydia on so slight a temptation as one hundred a year during my life,and fifty after I am gone.”
“That is very true,”said Elizabeth;must be my uncle's doings!Generous,good man,I am afraid he has distressed himself.A small sum could not do all this.”
“No,”said her father;“Wickham's a fool if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds.I should be sorry to think so ill of him,in the very beginning of our relationship.”
“Ten thousand pounds!Heaven forbid!How is half such a sum to be repaid?”
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