Leonard passed the chief of the night in his brothers room adjusting the tension on his emergency slingshot, often the last weapon used in the personal arsenal against the giant foe. In the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the enquiries which he very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters. In spite of this amendment, however, he requested to have a note sent to Longbourn, desiring his mother to visit James, and perhaps make the necessary arrangements to escort James to the family home. The note was immediately dispatched, and its contents as quickly complied with.
Mrs. Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest boys, departed their home in a carriage smartly camouflaged with evergreen branches. The driver and horses too were blanketed so that the whole resembled a slow-moving hedge. Charles used a horizontal periscope to look outside and follow the movements of a pair of giants on a distant hill. The Bennets reached Netherfield soon after the Bingley family breakfast.
Mrs. Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest boys, departed their home in a carriage smartly camouflaged with evergreen branches. The driver and horses too were blanketed so that the whole resembled a slow-moving hedge. Charles used a horizontal periscope to look outside and follow the movements of a pair of giants on a distant hill. The Bennets reached Netherfield soon after the Bingley family breakfast.