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1 Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare.
2 The old lady is Mrs. Jenkinson, who lives with them; the other is Miss de Bourgh.
3 Mrs. Reynolds then directed their attention to one of Miss Darcy, drawn when she was only eight years old.
4 She saw that he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances, and she was in no humour to indulge him.
5 The younger girls formed hopes of coming out a year or two sooner than they might otherwise have done; and the boys were relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte's dying an old maid.
6 There was now an interest, however, in believing the housekeeper; and they soon became sensible that the authority of a servant who had known him since he was four years old, and whose own manners indicated respectability, was not to be hastily rejected.
7 But there was much to be talked of in marrying her; and the good-natured wishes for her well-doing which had proceeded before from all the spiteful old ladies in Meryton lost but a little of their spirit in this change of circumstances, because with such an husband her misery was considered certain.