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Pride & Prejudice – page 218

JANE AUSTEN

three days was nothing in comparison of his being now

accepted. She had always felt that Charlotte’s opinion

of matrimony was not exactly like her own, but she had

not supposed it to be possible that, when called into

action, she would have sacrificed every better feeling

to worldly advantage. Charlotte the wife of Mr. Collins

was a most humiliating picture! And to the pang of a

friend disgracing herself and sunk in her esteem, was

added the distressing conviction that it was impossible

for that friend to be tolerably happy in the lot she had

chosen.

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