In Pride and Prejudice, who is Lydia invited to go toBrighton with?

The first week of their return was over.The second began.All the young ladies in the neighbourhood were tired after the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton.The dejection was universal.The elder Miss Bennets were still able to eat, drink, and sleep, even though they were alone.They were often reproached for this insensitivity by Kitty and Lydia, whose own misery was extreme, and who could not comprehend such hard-heartedness in any of the family.

Good Heaven!What will become of us?What are we going to do?They would say in the bitterness of woe.How can you be happy, Lizzy?

Their mother remembered what she had gone through five-and-twenty years ago.

She said she cried for two days when Colonel Miller's group went away.I thought about breaking my heart.

Such were the kind of complaints that came from Longbourn House.All sense of pleasure was lost when Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them.She had never been so willing to pardon his interference in the views of his friend.

Lydia received an invitation from Mrs. Forster, the wife of the colonel, to accompany her to BRIGHTON.A very young woman was married recently.She and Lydia were recommended to each other by a resemblance in good humor and good spirits.

The rapture of Lydia, the delight of Mrs. Bennet, and the death of Kitty are not to be described.Lydia flew about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyone's congratulations, and laughing and talking with more violence than ever, whilst the luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repined at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her.

"Though I am not her particular friend, Mrs. Forster should not ask me as well as Lydia," she said.I have the same right to be asked as she has, for I am two years older.

Elizabeth tried to make her reasonable, but Jane made her resign.As for Elizabeth, this invitation was so far from exciting in her the same feelings as her mother and Lydia, that she considered it as the death warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make her.The improprieties of Lydia's general behavior, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of Mrs. Forster, and the probability of her being yet more imprudent with such a companion, were all represented to him by her.He heard her and said something.

Lydia will never be easy until she exposed herself in a public place, and we can't expect her to do it with so little expense or hassle for her family.

The public notice of Lydia's unguarded and imprudent manner, which has already arisen from it, I am sure you would judge differently in the affair.

"Just arisen?"Mr. Bennet repeated it.Is she scaring away some of your lovers?Poor little Lizzy!Don't be thrown down.The squeamish youths are not worth a regret.Let me see the list of people who have been kept away from Lydia.

You are mistaken.I don't have injuries that I resent.I am now complaining that it is not of particular importance, but of general evils.Our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character.I must speak clearly.She will be beyond the reach of amendment if you don't check her spirits and teach her that her current activities are not the business of her life.Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorant andKitty is comprehended in this danger.She will follow Lydia wherever she goes.Vain, ignorant, and completely uncontrollable!Oh!Is it possible that they will not be censured and despised wherever they are known, and that their sisters won't be involved in the disgrace?

Mr. Bennet affectionately took her hand and said that her whole heart was in the subject.

My love, don't make yourself uneasy.Wherever you and Jane are known, you must be respected and valued, and you will not appear to be less advantage for having a couple of very silly sisters.If Lydia doesn't go to BRIGHTON, we will have no peace at Longbourn.Let her go.She is too poor to be an object of prey to anyone, and Colonel Forster is a sensible man who will keep her out of any real trouble.She will be more of a common flirt than she has been here.Women will be found better by the officers.We hope that she learns her own insignificance from being there.She cannot grow worse without us locking her up for the rest of her life.

Elizabeth was forced to be content, but her own opinion continued the same, and she left him disappointed and sorry.She didn't want to increase her vexations by dwelling on them.She was confident that she had done her duty and did not want to worry about unavoidable evils or anxiety.

Lydia and her mother would not have shown their indignation if they knew the substance of her conference with her father.In Lydia's imagination, a visit to BRIGHTON was a possibility.The streets of that gay bathing-place were covered with officers.She saw herself as the object of attention to many people.She saw the camp's tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet; and, to complete the view, she saw herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once.

What sensations would she have had if she had known that her sister wanted to destroy her?Only her mother could have understood them.Lydia was consoled by the fact that her husband never intended to go there himself.

They were completely ignorant of what had happened, and their raptures continued until Lydia left home.

Mr. Wickham was going to see Elizabeth for the last time.Since her return, he has been frequently in company with her.She had learned to detect gentleness, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary.She had a fresh source of displeasure for the fact that he soon testified of renewing those intentions which had marked the early part of their relationship.She could not but feel the reproof contained in his belief that however long, and for whatever cause, his attentions had been withdrawn from her.

On the last day of the regiment's remaining at Meryton, he had a meal with other officers at Longbourn, and Elizabeth was not willing to part from him in good humor.

He looked surprised, displeased, alarmed, and asked her how she liked him, after he remembered that he had previously seen her.Her answer was very positive.He added: with an air of indifference.

"Yes!"Mr. Wickham looked at her with a look that did not escape her.He asked if it was in address that he improved.I dare not hope that he has deigned to add civility to his style, for he is improved in essentials.

While she spoke, she looked as if she didn't know what she was talking about.She said that there was something in her countenance that made him listen with an anxious attention.

I did not mean that his mind or his manners were in a state of improvement, but that, from knowing him better, his disposition was better understood.

For a few minutes he was silent, till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her and said in the gentlest of accents.