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His daughter's request, for such it might be considered, of being

admitted into her family again, before she set off for the north,

received at first an absolute negative. But Jane and Elizabeth,

who agreed in wishing, for the sake of their sister's feelings

and consequence, that she should be noticed on her marriage by

her parents, urged him so earnestly, yet so rationally and so

mildly, to receive her and her husband at Longbourn, as soon as

they were married, that he was prevailed on to think as they

thought, and act as they wished. And their mother had the

satisfaction of knowing, that she should be able to show her

married daughter in the neighbourhood, before she was banished to

the north. When Mr. Bennet wrote again to his brother, therefore,

he sent his permission for them to come; and it was settled,

that, as soon as the ceremony was over, they should proceed to

Longbourn.