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cruciating emptiness where one's - heart ought to be. Oh, Jane.
love him so much. I'm so dread- fully unhappy." With great effort she controlled herself. "How sel- fish I'm
belnx. she sobbed she dried her eyes. "As if I were the only one to be unhappy.
Jane, my
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oor darling. You never did any thing wrong — but look what hap- pened between you and Mr. Bing- ley...
Oh. It's not fale"
"I'm not really unhappy, Lizzy." June whispered. "It was worse at the beginning when I was always expecting him to write, or even edenie belt. But now I don't do that any more. I only circam of hit. You'll have to learn tu dream, too, Ilzzy. Like I do."
And, their rns about each other, the two sisters wept out their heartache.
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RESUME
Since marriage is a girl's only career in the 1800's, Mrs. Bennet, mother of five marriageable daughters →→ Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Lydia and Kitty campaigns like a general to capture two rich London bachelora, Mfr. Darcy and hir. Bing- leu, for her two elder girls. Jane and Bingley fall in love at first sight; but Darcy's pride in his family and rank, pre- judices Elizabeth against him despite the fact that they are warmly Impossible.
drawn to each other, Darcy finds Elizabeth's family Her penicel father is completely overshadowed by her vulgar, scheming mother, and her sisters, Jane, Mary is a
bare. bot pretentious
Lydia and side of
are unmannerly boisterous. Elizabeth is completely incensed at Darcy's treatment of George Wickham whom he refuses to meet.
She credits his refusal to the fact that Wickham is the son of Darcy's late steward. Darcy, disgusted with the
Jane is Bennet family influences Bingley against Jane. heartbroken. Then Darcy realises that family or no, he cannot conquer his honest love for Elizabeth. He proposes and she rejects him with contempt.
Chapter Five
FAMILY SKELETON And then tragedy overlook the entire Bennet household,
Lydia, without bothering to stop for a marriage licence, eloped to London with George Wickhim.
Mrs. Bennet look to her bed, overwhelmed by The disgrace which followed In the wake of her daughter's mad exprice. Not only' did the elopement set Lydia out side the pale, its scundal ruined forever all chance of marriage for her four other daughters,
Jane, returning from London. and Elizabeth, back from her visit to Charlotte, accepted this result with grim silence. Since Bingley was last to her, Jane had no in tercat in husbands. Elizabeth, hav- ing flatly refused Darey's offer of marriage, settled her, mind to the fact that she'd live and die spinster.
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Through Charlotte's husband, Mr. Collins, Darcy heard of the scandal. His immediate reaction was to take the fral coach to Merylon, and upon arrival, set out ut once for the Bennet home.
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Mary rushed to tell Elizabeth that Darcy was in the parlour waiting to speak to her.
Darcy rose from his chuir as she entered.
"Mr. Darcy!" she greeted, her tone, sharp with angry defiance. "May I nɛk what has brought you hero?"
"Feel
no alarm, Madam," he replied coldly. "I have no inten tion of re-opening the painful sub- ject of marriage. After what you said the other day, that chapter is definitely closed." He paused, and his voice, when he again spoke, was gentle. "Bad news travels fast, Miss Dennot. A few hours after you left the Collins' home I heard about George Wickham and your sister. I felt it my duty to
at once."
Coro triumph over us, I suppose,"
answered bitterly.
she
To offer my services," he said kindly. Her amazed atare gave him momentary pause. "Miss Ben- not," he continued, "I told you the
other duy that, where Wick- ham was concerned, I chose to be slient. What has happened to your sister-has-made-mo-change my mld. You have" a right to know the truth about Wickham. One must know the worst in order
Mr. Bemiet returned from Lon- don, his mission a follure. Lydia
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Adapted from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
by GERTRUDE GELBIN
Your sister?” Elizabeth's 'un- just accusations, against Darey in regard to hi attllude toward Wickham swept through her, Her acute distress that he should now be forced to take her into his con- fidence on a matter so painful and personal to him, made her speech- less with grief and regret.
"My sister, Georgiana, was onts Afteen when she fell under Wick- ham's spell," he said heavily, "She has a considerable fortune in her own right. Ils plan was to elope with her and then, under the threat of publishing her disgrace, to force me to consent to their marriage. By the mercy of Pro- vidence, I discovered the plot In time. Your afster has been less fortunate."
A paint allence fell between then,
Darcy inally broke it. "Miss Bennet, may I ask it everything possible is being done to recover your sister?"
Elizabeth averted her face, try- ing to master her tears. "My father has gone to London. He and my uncle are searching for her
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"If there is any help I can give - should of course be unly too happy -
She shook her head. "Thank you. But I'm sure they and her. It will all be settled somehow."
He felt as if he should go, but her profound distress stayed him. He tried to find sume words of comfort for her, 'without success, "I'm afraid I've stayed too long,“ he faltered, "Goodbye."
"Goodbye" she through her (ears.
whispered
He looked at her for a long moment. "This is probably the last time I shall ever see you," he Bald slowly. "God bless you, Elizabeth Bennet,"
In another moment he was-HONE,
Elizabeth buried her face in her hands. What a tragic mistake sho had made. How could she have misjudged the man who meant so much to her. Why And als not
nor
schised, that not arrogance, pride, but some real and important reason had been behind. Darcy's continued contempt for Wickham,
Jane found her weeping in the darkened.room.
Elizabeth!" the cried. "What has happened? Did Mr. Darcy of ́fend-you-În some-way?”---
Elizabeth shook her head. "Oh, no, Jane. You don't understand. While I was visiting Charlotte,
to be able to guard against it.Mr. Darcy asked me to marry him
'Your sister's ease was not the first,
Miss Bennet"
Elizabeth paled. "Do you mean that Wickham has done this be fore?" she cried.
To my own sister," he said un- happily.
"Lizzy! What did you say to
him?"
"What did I say?" went Eliza- 'beth" "I said I never wanted to ree him again. And now, sudden. ly, I like having a kind of ex-
They
and Mr. Wickham were nowhere to be found. Now disgrace muddled the entire family with a vengeance, They were no longer in good standing with their neighbours. were refused admittance to Teryton's annusi celebration, the Assembly Bull. Street boys sang unedifying songs about Lydin and Wickham. It was no longer safe fur the girls to shop in the village, Jeers
and thunts followed them everywhere.
And then, as unexpectedly as they had run away, so unexpected- ly did Lydia and George Wickham return.
Like the silly, selfish, Irrespon- sible child she was, Lydia took no notice of the sorrowful straits to which she had reduced her family. All that was unimportant. Besides, everything was now changed.
For. Lydia and George Wickhum were married!
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More, George had suddenly come into fortune! He was vague about its source; but Mrs. Bennet was too excited at this suddenly
nexpected
happy
ending tragedy, to press the point. Let the
whole family rejoice! Her owlittle Lydia Lydia, who was Just sixteen was married! The baby of the. Bennet Family was the wife of a tuundsome, cushing, and (Oh! blessed thought), rich army officer.
Into the mad exciternent of the family reunion, strode the dour and stern person of Lady Catherine de Brough, Darcy's aunt.
She swept the Bennets with a baleful eye, dismissing the intro- duction to Wickham with the re- mark that his father had served In her family, offering acid corn-
ment in place of co
general
presence
to Lydia, and bewildered cupfusion und hurt at her uninvited and highly offensive haughtiness.
"Mrs. Bennet," she finally an- nounced, "I have come here solely to speak with your daughter, Miss Elizabeth. And I should like to talk to her alone."
Mrs. Bennet, 'overnwed by the importance of the lady addressing her, bastilyahooed her family from the rom.
As the door closed, Lady Cath- erine swung about and faced Eliza- beth.
Miss Bennet," she began per- emptorily. "You can be at no loss to understand the reason for my journey hither.--Your own con science must tell you that I have come-to-demand that you retract.
ance the rumour which has renched me.”
at
Elizabeth stared at her in as- innishment.
crine
"I have been told," Lady Cath- conunued severely, "that you, Miss Elizabeth Bennet ara shortly to be engaged to my nephew, Mr. Darcy."
And, having fired her bomb, Lady Catherine de Brough' nat..
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Lipe, 1910 My United Tentary Byndwate, Jive.
"Do you have one that, works for friends, but won't attract relatives?"
Life In
W WAR has radically changed Italian life, and the shortcomings of Fascism in peacetime with its restrictions on personal liberty have, now that the nation is engaged in a ma- jor conflict, merged into a struggle for existence.
Foreigners, Italy's invisible export are as rare as files in the wintertime-except for Germans who, come to get and A few neutrals not to give. with business interests find life difficult and the odd hun- dred British who stayed on have been sent to the moun- tains to spend a lonely time for the duration
Strangely
enough, Flor- ence, the city that used to thrive on its
visi-.. English tors, has been unkind most
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Italy
power station until the "all clear."
Problems of raid shelters which, up to now, have been limited to cellars, are being studied. House-owners have to reinforce their cellars and furnish them with chairs or benches and hurricane lamps."
According to the "Gazelta del Popolo," of Turin, the Fascist lender of the town inspected the shelters during a raid and found them unsatis- factory. He published a re- port, reproduced in all the papers, and stated that fines would be imposed if shelters were not improved or if they were not kept clean.
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to them now that they have become enemies, and many were sent to gol when war began.
Britons in Rome, mostly elderly ladies, perhaps amounting to score, have had an easier tine. One wo- man living on the outskirts, of the city has been allowed to live in her vilk, and Italians soldiers are bileted in her park.
But it is in the North that the war is most felt. Late nights are a thing of the past. Since the R.A.E raids began life shuts down at 11 pm. and Trains, buses, trams cinemas close before this hour, which has become a sort of unofficial curfew.
The black-out during tho stifling summer months Was still dimcult. Appeals ⚫ are published in the Press asking people to be mon careful with their lights. When a raid is -on-the-matter-la-simpler- the current' is tut off at the
Complaints are published in the "Popolo di Roma, about the ex- orbitant prices for vegetables and fruit. Shopkeepers increase the price set by the municipal authorities, so that grapes, which were Gd. a pound last year, are now 1s Gd. A list is published in the paper of 200 green-grocers who are row in gaol for profiteer- ing.
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Wine prices have been blocked because of attempts corner this commodity, consumption of which has ** soared recently. Fish, the distribution and price of which have been controlled, is now insufficient to go round.
Sugar is also scarce. The ration of pound a month continues, but chemists have had their stocks curtailed by 25 per cent.
Soviet Army Manoeuvres
Russia's Far Eastern troops are on manoeuvres near Khabarovsk, con- ducting joint exercises with units of down in teve of righteous the Amur flotilla of the Soviet Fleet. wrath.
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Where did Lad Catherine get this information? Can there be any truth in it? Rind to-morrow's concluding chapte."
bccording to "Red Star," the Bovist Army newspaper.
It is also revealed that Red Flest manoeuvres are still in progress in the Blackt "Sea.
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