Mr. Bennet: For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Mrs. Bennet: You don't know what I suffer.
Mary Bennet: It behooves us all, to take very careful thought before pronouncing an adverse judgment on any of our fellow men.
Mr. Bennet: Til you or your sister Jane return, I shall not hear two words of sense spoken together.
Elizabeth Bennet: The more I see of the world, the less inclined I am to think well of it.
Mr. Darcy: Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Bennet: Perhaps I didn't always love him as well as I do now, but in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.
Answer: The children were probably left with a nanny or relatives. It's very likely that the Longborns would have left them at home. Travelling for days by horse-drawn carriage over bumpy dirt roads is difficult in the best of circumstances, and particularly hard during winter. The trip would be too arduous for young children.
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