Walking

"As soon as they were gone, Elizabeth walked out to recover her spirits; or, in other words, to dwell without interruption on those subjects that must deaden them more."

As I have said in another post, walking and traveling plays a large part in Pride and Prejudice. They are ways to clear one's head or "recover [one's] spirits." Elizabeth is very excited when she and her aunt and uncle are going to take a trip around the countryside--she will no longer have to worry about marriage or men while she is gone. However, traveling in the book also creates more problems and strife. Many events take place while traveling that change the plot, thus adding new things to think about and brood over, as Elizabeth says in this quote. Lydia runs off with Wickham while she is gone at Brighton, and Elizabeth and Darcy become engaged while they are walking.