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Without allowing herself time for consideration, and scarcely knowing what she felt,Elizabeth on finishing this letter instantly seized the other,and opening it with the utmost impatience,read as follows:it had been written a day later than the conclusion of the first.

Elizabeth had been a good deal disappointed in not finding a letter from Jane on their first arrival at Lambton; and this disappointment had been renewed on each of the mornings that had now been spent there;but on the third her repining was over, and her sister justified, by the receipt of two letters from her at once, on one of which was marked that it had been missent elsewhere.Elizabeth was not surprised at it,as Jane had written the direction remarkably ill.

“Since writing the above,dearest Lizzy,something has occurred of a most unexpected and serious nature; but I am afraid of alarming you―be assured that we are all well.What I have to say relates to poor Lydia.An express came at twelve last night, just as we were all gone to bed,from Colonel Forster,to inform us that she was gone off to Scotland with one of hi