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The whole party were in hopes of a letter from Mr.Bennet the next morning,but the post came in without bringing a single line from him.His family knew him to be,on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent;but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.They were forced to conclude that he had no pleasing intelligence to send; but even of that they would have been glad to be certain.Mr.Gardiner had waited only for the letters before he set off.