It was the second week in May, in which the three young ladies set out together from Gracechurch Street for the town of ……, in 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 visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a salad and cucumber.

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. I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not. I shall pull it to pieces as soon as I get home, and see if I can make it up any better. "

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 ----shire have left Meryton, and they are going in a fortnight. "

1.coachman n.趕馬車人 They hired a coachman to drive them to London. 他們雇了一個馬車夫趕車到倫敦去。

2.agreeable adj. 愉快的, 和藹可親的 I found him most agreeable. 我覺得他極易相處.

3.as soon as 一……就…… I'll write you as soon as I get there. 我一到那兒，就給你寫信。

4.tolerable adj.可忍受的;可容忍的 The pain has become tolerable. 疼痛變得可以忍受了。