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After the first fortnight or three weeks of her absence,health, good humour,and cheerfulness began to reappear at Longbourn. Everythg wore a happier aspect.The families who had been town for the wter came back aga,and summer fery and summer engagements arose. Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity;and,by the middle of June,Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears;an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope that by the followg Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day,unless,by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office,another regiment should be quartered Meryton.

The time fixed for the begng of their northern tour was now fast approachg, and a fortnight only was wantg of it, when a letter arrived from Mrs.Garder,which at once delayed its commencement and curtailed its extent.Mr.Garder would be prevented by busess from settg out till a fortnight later July,and must be London aga with a month,and as that left too short a period for them to go so far,and see so much as they had proposed,or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour,and,accordg to the present plan,were to go no farther northwards than Derbyshire.In that county there was enough to be seen to occupy the chief of their three weeks; and to Mrs. Garder it had a peculiarly strong attraction.The town where she had formerly passed some years of her life, and where they were now to spend a few days, was probably as great an object of her curiosity as all the celebrated beauties of Matlock,Chatsworth,Dovedale,or the Peak.

Elizabeth was excessively disappoted; she had set her heart on seeg the Lakes,and still thought there might have been time enough.But it was her busess to be satisfied—and certaly her temper to be happy;and all was soon right aga.

With the mention of Derbyshire there were many ideas connected. It was impossible for her to see the word without thkg of Pemberley and its owner.“But surely,”said she,“I may enter his county without impunity,and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceivg me.”

The period of expectation was now doubled. Four weeks were to pass away before her uncle and aunt''s arrival. But they did pass away,and Mr.and Mrs.Garder,with their four children,did at length appear at Longbourn.The children, two girls of six and eight years old, and two younger boys, were to be left under the particular care of their cous Jane, who was the general favourite, and whose steady sense and sweetness of temper exactly adapted her for attendg to them every way—teachg them,playg with them,and lovg them.

The Garders stayed only one night at Longbourn, and set off the next morng with Elizabeth pursuit of novelty and amusement. One enjoyment was certa—that of suitableness of companions; a suitableness which comprehended health and temper to bear conveniences—cheerfulness to enhance every pleasure—and affection and telligence, which might supply it among themselves if there were disappotments abroad.