Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 51

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 51, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: The day of Lydia’s wedding has arrived, and their carriage soon arrives. Mrs Bennet is overjoyed to hear the daughter’s voice and welcomes her child with the warmth. Mr Bennet is unhappy and slightly unwelcoming to his daughter and her husband. Elizabeth is disgusted by Lydia’s behaviour. She has not changed at all throughout this whole horror show and doesn’t even pretend to notice how hard it must have been on her family. Lydia talks about her running off with Wickham as if it was a joke, and the only person seemingly not disturbed by this is her mother. Elizabeth escapes from them for a breath of fresh air before dinner. Lydia wants to go around the town and show off her wedding ring to everyone, says that she should have taken everyone to Brighton, as they could have all found husbands. Lydia, after a couple of days goes to tell Elizabeth about her wedding day as she had run off before the story was told to the rest of her family. The story bores elizabeth through until the end when Lydia lets slip that Mr Darcy was there. Lydia says that no one was supposed to know that, and playing coy, Elizabeth pretends that she doesn’t want to hear more about it. She immediately runs off to write a letter to her aunt about Darcy’s being there. She needs to know what a man, who seemingly had no want nor reason to be there, was doing at that ceremony.