Jane Austen
surprise?"
"And we mean to treat you all," added Lydia, "but you must lend us the money, for we
have just spent ours at the shop out there." Then, showing her purchases--"Look here, I
have bought this bonnet. I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it
as not. I shall pull it to pieces as soon as I get home, and see if I can make it up any better."
And when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect unconcern, "Oh! but there
were two or three much uglier in the shop; and when I have bought some prettier-coloured
satin to trim it with fresh, I think it will be very tolerable. Besides, it will not much signify
what one wears this summer, after the ----shire have left Meryton, and they are going in a
fortnight."
"Are they indeed!" cried Elizabeth, with the greatest satisfaction.
"They are going to be encamped near Brighton; and I do so want papa to take us all there
for the summer
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