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Chapter 6.

The whole party were in hopes of a letter for Mr. Bennett the next morning.

But the post came without bringing a single line from him.

His family knew him to be on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent,

but at such a time they had hoped for exertion. They were forced to conclude that he had no

pleasing intelligence to send, but even of that they would have been glad to be certain.

Mr. Gardner had waited only for the letters before he set off.

When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was

going on, and their uncle promised at parting to prevail on Mr. Bennett to return to Longbourn as

soon as he could, to the great

consolation of his sister, who considered it as the only security for her husband's not being

killed in a duel. Mrs. Gardner and the children were to remain in Hertfordshire a few days longer,

as the former thought her presence might be serviceable to her nieces.

She shared in their attendance on Mrs. Bennett, and was a great comfort to them in their

hours of freedom. Their other aunt also visited them frequently, and always, as she said,

with the design of cheering and heartening them up. Though as she never came without reporting some fresh

instance of Wickham's extravagance or irregularity, she seldom went away without leaving them

more dispirited than she found them. All Mariton seems striving to blacken the men, who,

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