Chapter LV

, when Jane's engagement to Bingley had been arranged, Bentley's edition, following the third edition, reads:--

Elizabeth, who was left by herself, now smiled at the rapidity and ease with which an affair was finally settled, that had given them so many previous months of surprise and vexation.

'Surprise' does not seem nearly so suitable a word as 'suspense,' which is found in the first and second editions.

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