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1 It was not in their direct road, nor more than a mile or two out of it.
2 All that is known after this is, that they were seen to continue the London road.
3 She is on her road somewhere, I dare say, and so, passing through Meryton, thought she might as well call on you.
4 They travelled as expeditiously as possible, and, sleeping one night on the road, reached Longbourn by dinner time the next day.
5 The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine's behaviour was most friendly and obliging.
6 The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving.
7 When they left the high road for the lane to Hunsford, every eye was in search of the Parsonage, and every turning expected to bring it in view.
8 They gradually ascended for half-a-mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of a valley, into which the road with some abruptness wound.
9 As they walked across the hall towards the river, Elizabeth turned back to look again; her uncle and aunt stopped also, and while the former was conjecturing as to the date of the building, the owner of it himself suddenly came forward from the road, which led behind it to the stables.
10 An hour, however, saw the whole completed; and Mr. Gardiner meanwhile having settled his account at the inn, nothing remained to be done but to go; and Elizabeth, after all the misery of the morning, found herself, in a shorter space of time than she could have supposed, seated in the carriage, and on the road to Longbourn.