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She had never perceived,while the regiment was in Hertfordshire, that Lydia had any partiality for him; but she was convinced that Lydia wanted only encouragement to attach herself to anybody. Sometimes one officer, sometimes another, had been her favourite,as their attentions raised them in her opinion.Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.The mischief of neglect and mistaken indulgence towards such a girl―oh!how acutely did she now feel it!

“Yes;and I told him we should not be able to keep our engagement. That is all settled.”

She was wild to be at home―to hear, to see, to be upon the sp