Word reaches Elizabeth at Lambton that her youngest sister Lydia has run away from Brighton with Mr. Wickham, unmarried. The disgrace threatens to ruin every Bennet sister's prospects, and the news ends the Derbyshire tour at once.
Chapter XLIX
The pair are run to ground in London and a marriage is patched together on terms quietly underwritten by others.
Chapter LI
Lydia comes home as Mrs. Wickham, wholly unrepentant and as thoughtless as ever.
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