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Tonight, I continue the story,

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen.

So lie down, close your eyes,

and let me read you a story.

Chapter 27

With no greater events than these in the long-born family,

and otherwise diversified by little beyond the walks to Merriton,

sometimes dirty and sometimes cold,

did January and February pass away.

March was to take Elizabeth to Huntsford.

She had not at first thought very seriously of going thither, but Charlotte,

she soon found, was depending on the plan, and she gradually learned to consider it herself with greater pleasure as well as greater certainty. Absence had increased her desire of seeing

Charlotte again, and weakened her disgust of Mr. Collins.

There was novelty in the scheme, and as with such a mother and such uncompaniable sisters,

home could not be faultless. A little change was not unwelcome for its own sake.

The journey would, moreover, give her a peep at Jane, and, in short, as the time drew nearer,

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