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“I hope not so. Imprudence or thoughtlessness in money matters would be unpardonable in me.”

“And this,”said she,“is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection!of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance!the happiest,wisest,most reasonable end!”

“Jane,I congratulate you.You will be a very happy woman.”

Elizabeth, who was left by herself, now smiled at the rapidity and ease with which an affair was finally settled,that had given them so many previous months of suspense and vexation.