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Chapter 19

           TheyhaddeterminedthattheirmarriageoughttobeconcludedwhileJohnandIsabellawerestillatHartfield,toallowthemthefortnight’sabsenceinatourtotheseaside,whichwastheplan.JohnandIsabella,andeveryotherfriend,wereagreedinapprovingit.ButMr.WoodhousehowwasMr.Woodhousetobeinducedtoconsent?he,whohadneveryetalludedtotheirmarriagebutasadistantevent.

           Whenfirstsoundedonthesubject,hewassomiserable,thattheywerealmosthopeless.Asecondallusion,indeed,gavelesspain.Hebegantothinkitwastobe,andthathecouldnotpreventitaverypromisingstepofthemindonitswaytoresignation.Still,however,hewasnothappy.Nay,heappearedsomuchotherwise,thathisdaughter’scouragefailed.Shecouldnotbeartoseehimsuffering,toknowhimfancyinghimselfneglected;andthoughherunderstandingalmostacquiescedintheassuranceofboththeMr.Knightleys,thatwhenoncetheeventwereover,hisdistresswouldbesoonovertoo,shehesitatedshecouldnotproceed.

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

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