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Chapter 19

           —TheyhaddeterminedthattheirmarriageoughttobeconcludedwhileJohnandIsabellawerestillatHartfield,toallowthemthefortnight’sabsenceinatourtotheseaside,whichwastheplan.—JohnandIsabella,andeveryotherfriend,wereagreedinapprovingit.ButMr.Woodhouse—howwasMr.Woodhousetobeinducedtoconsent?—he,whohadneveryetalludedtotheirmarriagebutasadistantevent.

           Whenfirstsoundedonthesubject,hewassomiserable,thattheywerealmosthopeless.—Asecondallusion,indeed,gavelesspain.—Hebegantothinkitwastobe,andthathecouldnotpreventit—averypromisingstepofthemindonitswaytoresignation.Still,however,hewasnothappy.Nay,heappearedsomuchotherwise,thathisdaughter’scouragefailed.Shecouldnotbeartoseehimsuffering,toknowhimfancyinghimselfneglected;andthoughherunderstandingalmostacquiescedintheassuranceofboththeMr.Knightleys,thatwhenoncetheeventwereover,hisdistresswouldbesoonovertoo,shehesitated—shecouldnotproceed.

           Inthisstateofsuspensetheywerebefriended,notbyanysuddenilluminationofMr.Woodhouse’smind,oranywonderfulchangeofhisnervoussystem,butbytheoperationofthesamesysteminanotherway.—Mrs.Weston’spoultry-housewasrobbedonenightofallherturkeys—evidentlybytheingenuityofman.Otherpoultry-yardsintheneighbourhoodalsosuffered.—PilferingwashousebreakingtoMr.Woodhouse’sfears

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