Jane Austen
invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham, and complaints of her own sufferings
and ill-usage; blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors
of her daughter must principally be owing.
"If I had been able," said she, "to carry my point in going to Brighton, with all my family,
this would not have happened; but poor dear Lydia had nobody to take care of her. Why did
the Forsters ever let her go out of their sight? I am sure there was some great neglect or
other on their side, for she is not the kind of girl to do such a thing if she had been well
looked after. I always thought they were very unfit to have the charge of her; but I was
overruled, as I always am. Poor dear child! And now here's Mr. Bennet gone away, and I
know he will fight Wickham, wherever he meets him and then he will be killed, and what is
to become of us all
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