Letters from Venice

 

Many changes had come to Longbourn since the day on which Mrs. Bennet had got rid of her two mostdeserving daughters. Once she would have protested that with all her daughters married, she would have nothing else to wish for, but the reality was something different, and Mrs Bennet had perhaps more complaints now than she did in the days when they were all still single.

The trouble began when Jane and Elizabeth moved so far away. Elizabeth began it, by removing to Pemberley, a vastly rich, bea...