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Parish under attack, these people had retreated to the only safe place they knew; but it hadn t been safe enough. The zombies had simply overwhelmed them with superior numbers and insatiable
determination. Men still clutched their pitchforks. Ladies still huddled with their children. Elizabeth felt her eyes moisten as she imagined the horror of their final moments. The screams. The sight of
others being torn to pieces before their eyes.The horror of being eaten alive by creatures of unspeakable evil.
A tear fell down Elizabeth s cheek. She was quick to wipe it away, feeling somewhat ashamed that it had escaped at all.
A house of God so defiled! said Maria, as their journey continued. Have these unmentionables no sense of decency?
They know nothing of the sort, said Elizabeth, staring mindlessly out of the coach s window, and neither must we.
With no further alarm, they reached Mr. Gardiner s house, where they were to remain for a few days. Jane looked well, and Elizabeth had little opportunity of studying her spirits, amidst the various
engagements which the kindness of her aunt had reserved for them. But Jane was to go home with her, and at Longbourn there would be leisure enough for observation.
It was not without an effort, meanwhile, that she could wait even for Longbourn, before she told her sister of Mr. Darcy s proposals. To know that she had the power of revealing what would so
exceedingly astonish Jane was such a temptation to openness as nothing could have conquered but the state of indecision in which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate;
and her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into repeating something of Bingley which might only grieve her sister further.
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies
CHAPTER 39
IT WAS THE SECOND WEEK in May, in which the three young ladies set out together from Section Six East for Hertfordshire; and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet s
carriage was to meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman s punctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room upstairs. These two girls had been above an hour in the
place, happily employed in amusing the sentinel on guard with immodest displays of their proficiency with a throwing star, much to the consternation of the carriage horse which served as their
unwilling target.
After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, Is not this nice? Is not this an agreeable surprise?
And we mean to treat you all, added Lydia, but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there. Then, showing her purchases- Look here, I have bought this
bonnet.
And when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect unconcern, Oh! But there were two or three much uglier in the shop; and when I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim it
with fresh, I think it will be very tolerable. Besides, it will not much signify what one wears this summer, after the soldiers have left Meryton, and they are going in a fortnight.
Are they indeed! cried Elizabeth, with the greatest satisfaction; for not only would her sisters have one less distraction from their training, but the very fact of the decampment meant that
Hertfordshire had been much relieved of the unmentionable menace while she was away.
They are going to be encamped near Brighton; and I do so want papa to take us all there for the summer! It would be such a delicious
scheme; and I dare say would hardly cost anything at all. Mamma would like to go too of all things! Only think what a miserable summer else we shall have! With hardly any balls to be had in
Meryton!
Yes, thought Elizabeth, a summer with so few balls would be miserable indeed for a girl who thinks of little else.
Now I have got some news for you, said Lydia, as they sat down .it table. What do you think? It is excellent news-capital news-and about a certain person we all like!
Jane and Elizabeth looked at each other, and the waiter was told he need not stay. Lydia laughed, and said:
Aye, that is just like your formality and discretion.You thought the waiter must not hear, as if he cared! I dare say he often hears worse things said than I am going to say. But he is an ugly fellow! I
never saw such a long chin in my life. I nearly ran him through for thinking him a zombie. Well, but now for my news; it is about dear Wickham; too good for the waiter, is it not? There is no danger of
Wickham s marrying Mary King. There s for you! She is gone down to her uncle at Liverpool: gone to stay. Wickham is safe.
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