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CHAPTER LXI.

Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs.

Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters. With what

delighted pride she afterwards visited Mrs. Bingley, and talked

of Mrs. Darcy, may be guessed. I wish I could say, for the sake

of her family, that the accomplishment of her earnest desire in

the establishment of so many of her children produced so happy an

effect as to make her a sensible, amiable, well-informed woman

for the rest of her life; though, perhaps, it was lucky for her

husband, who might not have relished domestic felicity in so

unusual a form, that she still was occasionally nervous and

invariably silly.

Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection

for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do.

He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least

expected.