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"And we mean to treat you all," added Lydia; "but you must lend

us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there."

Then showing her purchases,--"Look here, I have bought this

bonnet. I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might

as well buy it as not. I shall pull it to pieces as soon as I get

home, and see if I can make it up any better."

And when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect

unconcern, "Oh, but there were two or three much uglier in the

shop; and when I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim

it with fresh, I think it will be very tolerable. Besides, it

will not much signify what one wears this summer, after the

----shire have left Meryton, and they are going in a fortnight."

"Are they, indeed?" cried Elizabeth, with the greatest

satisfaction.