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Pride and Prejudice

daughters, she could not take upon her to sayshe

could not positively answerbut she did not know of

any prepossession; her eldest daughter, she must just

mentionshe felt it incumbent on her to hint, was

likely to be very soon engaged.”

Mr. Collins had only to change from Jane

to Elizabeth and it was soon donedone while

Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire. Elizabeth, equally

next to Jane in birth and beauty, succeeded her of

course.

Mrs. Bennet treasured up the hint, and trusted that

she might soon have two daughters married; and the

man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before

was now high in her good graces.

Lydia’s intention of walking to Meryton was not

forgotten; every sister except Mary agreed to go with

her; and Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the

request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to

get rid of him, and have his library to himself; for

thither Mr. Collins had followed him after breakfast;

and there he would continue, nominally engaged with

one of the largest folios in the collection, but really

talking to Mr. Bennet, with little cessation, of his house

and garden at Hunsford. Such doings discomposed

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