1 Where there is fortune to make the expenses of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil.
2 You know I always speak my mind, and I cannot bear the idea of two young women travelling post by themselves.
3 At last she recollected that she had been travelling, and they talked of Matlock and Dove Dale with great perseverance.
4 They travelled as expeditiously as possible, and, sleeping one night on the road, reached Longbourn by dinner time the next day.
5 He acknowledged the truth of it all, and said that business with his steward had occasioned his coming forward a few hours before the rest of the party with whom he had been travelling.
6 However little Mr. Darcy might have liked such an address, he contented himself with coolly replying that he perceived no other alteration than her being rather tanned, no miraculous consequence of travelling in the summer.
7 With respect to Wickham, the travellers soon found that he was not held there in much estimation; for though the chief of his concerns with the son of his patron were imperfectly understood, it was yet a well-known fact that, on his quitting Derbyshire, he had left many debts behind him, which Mr. Darcy afterwards discharged.
8 He now seated himself by her, and talked so agreeably of Kent and Hertfordshire, of travelling and staying at home, of new books and music, that Elizabeth had never been half so well entertained in that room before; and they conversed with so much spirit and flow, as to draw the attention of Lady Catherine herself, as well as of Mr. Darcy.