— “No, my dear, you had better go on horseback,
because it seems likely to rain;
and then you must stay all night.”
— “That would be a good scheme,”
said Elizabeth,
“if you were sure that they would not offer to send her home.”
— “Oh! but the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley's chaise to go to Meryton;
and the Hursts have no horses to theirs.”
— “I had much rather go in the coach.”
— “But, my dear, your father cannot spare the horses, I am sure.
They are wanted in the farm, Mr. Bennet, are not they?”
— “They are wanted in the farm much oftener than I can get them.”
— “But if you have got them today,”
said Elizabeth,
“my mother's purpose will be answered.”