Elizabeth
could bear it no longer. She got up, and ran out of the room; and returned no
more, till she heard them passing through the hall to the dining parlour. She
then joined them soon enough to see Lydia,
with anxious parade, walk up to her mother's right hand, and hear her say to her eldest
sister, ‘Ah! Jane,
I take your place now, and you must go lower,
because I am a married woman.’
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