— “Is this a hint to me, Lizzy,”
said her father,
“to send for the horses?”
— “No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk.
The distance is nothing when one has a motive;
only three miles.
I shall be back by dinner.”
— “I admire the activity of your benevolence,”
observed mary
observed Mary,
“but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason;
and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”
— “We will go as far as Meryton with you,”
said Catherine and Lydia.
Elizabeth accepted their company,
and the three young ladies set off together.
— “If we make haste,”
said Lydia, as they walked along,
“perhaps we may see something of Captain Carter before he goes.”