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“Oh,yes!―if one could but go to Brighton!But papa is so disagreeable.”

Mr. Bennet saw that her whole heart was in the subject, and affectionately taking her hand said in reply:

“If one could but go to Brighton!”observed Mrs. Bennet.

But the gloom of Lydia's prospect was shortly cleared away;for she received an invitation from Mrs. Forster, the wife of the colonel of the regiment, to accompany her to Brighton. This invaluable friend was a very young woman, and very lately married.A resemblance in good humour and good spirits had recommended her and Lydia to each other,and out of their three months' acquaintance they had been intimate two.