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When Elizabeth had rejoiced over Wickham's departure, she found

little other cause for satisfaction in the loss of the regiment.

Their parties abroad were less varied than before; and at home

she had a mother and sister, whose constant repinings at the

dulness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their

domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her

natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were

removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil

might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly

and assurance, by a situation of such double danger as a

watering-place and a camp. Upon the whole, therefore, she found,

what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she

had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking

place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.