Yes, I call it a _very_ easy distance." "I should never have considered the distance as one of the _advantages_ of the match," cried Elizabeth.

"I should never have said Mrs.Collins was settled _near_ her family." "It is a proof of your own attachment to Hertfordshire.

Anything beyond the very neighbourhood of Longbourn, I suppose, would appear far." As he spoke there was a sort of smile which Elizabeth fancied she understood; he must be supposing her to be thinking of Jane and Netherfield, and she blushed as she answered: "I do not mean to say that a woman may not be settled too near her family.

The far and the near must be relative, and depend on many varying circumstances.

Where there is fortune to make the expenses of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil.