Jane Austen
of his wife.
When Elizabeth had rejoiced over Wickham's departure she found little other cause for
satisfaction in the loss of the regiment. Their parties abroad were less varied than before,
and at home she had a mother and sister whose constant repinings at the dullness of
everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty
might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were
removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was
likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a
watering-place and a camp. Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes
found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in
taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently
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