Jane Austen
talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would
have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both;
by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and
from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received
benefit of greater importance.
But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what connubial
felicity really was. An union of a different tendency, and precluding the possibility of the
other, was soon to be formed in their family.
How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not
imagine. But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only
brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily
conjecture.
Mr. Gardiner soon wrote again to his brother. To Mr. Bennet's acknowledgments he
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