luckily too poor to attract any fortune-hunters. At Brighton she
will be of less importance than here. Let us hope, therefore, that it
may teach her a little about life.'
With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be satisfied.
•
Elizabeth now saw Wickham for the last time. Having met him
frequently since her return, she had become fairly well used to
the situation. Her interest in him had quite gone, and in his
present behaviour to herself she had a fresh cause for displeasure.
The readiness that he soon showed in renewing his attentions to
her, now that Miss King had gone, proved that he judged her to
be foolish enough to be pleased by notice from him at any time
that he chose to give it.
On the very last day of the regiment's stay he had dinner, with
some other officers at Longbourn. Elizabeth was so unwilling to
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