Anne-Francois-Louis Janmot paintings
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``But,'' he added, ``you will of course wish to have your humble respects delivered to them, with your grateful thanks for their kindness to you while you have been here.''
Elizabeth made no objection; -- the door was then allowed to be shut, and the carriage drove off.IT was the second week in May in which the three young ladies set out together from Gracechurch- street for the town of ---- in Hertfordshire; and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet's carriage was to meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman's punctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining room upstairs. These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a sallad and cucumber.
After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, ``Is not this nice? is not this an agreeable surprise?''
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