I agree. Mr. Bennet suggests (though perhaps jokingly) that in sending Lydia a hundred pounds a year, he's only out ten pounds more than he was with her at home. There probably wasn't a specific servant for Lydia. The cook still got paid the same with Lydia gone, and they had to heat the same number of rooms in the winter. There was a certain amount of overhead that didn't change much regardless of how many people were living there. So if the expenses for the girls only amounted to about a hundred pounds each, what were they doing with the rest of the money?
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