...and perhaps indulging Mr. Bennet's indolence, keeping the Bennet family away from the wedding would be part of a plan to associate the Bennet family as little as possible with this dubious wedding ceremony and is of a piece with the wedding announcement Mrs. Bennet supposes was botched.

"...And one of my own daughters. I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have seen it in the papers. It was in the Times and the Courier, I know; though it was not put in as it ought to be. It was only said, 'Lately, George Wickham Esq., to Miss Lydia Bennet,' without there being a syllable said of her father, or the place where she lived, or anything. ..." (Ch. 53)