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Pride & Prejudice – page 351

Chapter 37

The two gentlemen left Rosings the next morning, and

Mr. Collins having been in waiting near the lodges, to

make them his parting obeisance, was able to bring

home the pleasing intelligence, of their appearing in

very good health, and in as tolerable spirits as could

be expected, after the melancholy scene so lately gone

through at Rosings. To Rosings he then hastened, to

console Lady Catherine and her daughter; and on his

return brought back, with great satisfaction, a message

from her ladyship, importing that she felt herself so dull

as to make her very desirous of having them all to dine

with her.

Elizabeth could not see Lady Catherine without

recollecting that, had she chosen it, she might by this

time have been presented to her as her future niece; nor

could she think, without a smile, of what her ladyship’s

indignation would have been. “What would she have

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