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has happened to you all since you went away.Have you seen any pleasant men?Have you had any flirting?I was in great hopes that one of you would have got a husband before you came back. Jane will be quite an old maid soon,I declare.She is almost three-and-twenty!Lord,how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty! My aunt Phillips wants you so to get husbands,you can't think.She says Lizzy had better have taken Mr.Collins;but I do not think there would have been any fun in it.Lord!how I should like to be married before any of you;and then I would chaperon you about to all the balls.Dear me!we had such a good piece of fun the other day at Colonel Forster's.Kitty and me were to spend the day there,and Mrs.Forster promised to have a little dance in the evening; (by the bye, Mrs. Forster and me are such friends!)and so she asked the two Harringtons to come, but Harriet was ill, and so Pen was forced to come by herself; and then, what do you think we did?We dressed up Chamberlayne in woman's clothes on purpose to pass for a lady, only think what fun!Not a soul knew of it,but Colonel and Mrs. Forster,and Kitty and me,except my aunt,for we were forced to borrow one of her gowns; and you cannot imagine how well he looked!When Denny,and Wickham,and Pratt,and two or three more of the men came in, they did not know him in the least. Lord!how I laughed!and so did Mrs.Forster.I thought I should have died.And that made the men suspect something,and then they soon found out what was the matter.”