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"And what is fifty miles of good road? Little more than half a

day's journey. Yes, I call it a very easy distance."

"I should never have considered the distance as one of the

advantages of the match," cried Elizabeth. "I should never have

said Mrs. Collins was settled near her family."

"It is a proof of your own attachment to Hertfordshire. Anything

beyond the very neighbourhood of Longbourn, I suppose, would

appear far."

As he spoke there was a sort of smile, which Elizabeth fancied

she understood; he must be supposing her to be thinking of Jane

and Netherfield, and she blushed as she answered,--