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taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently
necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity--to have
some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the
pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another
disappointment. Her tour to the Lakes was now the object of her happiest thoughts; it was
her best consolation for all the uncomfortable hours which the discontentedness of her
mother and Kitty made inevitable; and could she have included Jane in the scheme, every
part of it would have been perfect.
"But it is fortunate," thought she, "that I have something to wish for. Were the whole
arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But here, by carrying with me
one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my
expectations of pleasure realised. A scheme of which every part promises delight can never
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