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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Austen, Jane

Austen, Jane
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Pride And Prejudice: Chapters 14 - 34

Chapter XIV

After dinner, Mr. Collins discourses at length about his great good
luck in having Lady Catherine de Bourgh for a patron and about his
determination to comply exactly with her wishes. He is flattered at her
having advised him to marry soon. He tells of Lady Catherine's sickly
daughter, Miss de Bourgh, and of his own adept flattery.

Mr. Bennet is greatly amused by Collins's pompous, solemn air of
self-importance and his obsequious praise of the proud Lady Catherine de
Bourgh.

Chapter XV

Mr. Collins is ...

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