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The joy which Miss Darcy expressed on receiving similar information, was as sincere as her brother's in sending it. Four sides of paper were insufficient to contain all her delight,and all her earnest desire of being loved by her sister.

Mr.Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a twelvemonth. So near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not desirable even to his easy temper,or her affectionate heart.The darling wish of his sisters was then gratified;he bought an estate in a neighbouring county to Derbyshire,and Jane and Elizabeth, in addition to every other source of happiness,were within thirty miles of each other.

Mrs.Phillips's vulgarity was another,and perhaps,a greater tax on his forbearance; and though Mrs. Phillips, as well as her sister,stood in too much awe of him to speak with the familiarity which Bingley's good humour encouraged,yet, whenever she did speak,she must be vulgar.Nor was her respect for him,though it made her more quiet, at all likely to make her more elegant. Elizabeth did all she could to shield him from the frequent notice of either,and was ever anxious to keep him to herself,and to those of her family with whom he might converse without mortification;and though the uncomfortable feelings arising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its pleasure, it added to the hope of the future;and she looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either,to all the comfort and elegance of their family party at Pemberley.