Jane Austen
arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least
have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind
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
annaabi.ee 
