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When?
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He may turn us out of the house
as soon as he pleases.
:25:06
The estate passes directly to him
and not to us poor females.
:25:15
Mr Collins, at your service.
:25:26
What a superbly featured room
and what excellent potatoes.
:25:31
It's many years since
I've had such an exemplary vegetable.
:25:35
To which fair cousin should I compliment
the excellence of the cooking?
:25:39
We are perfectly able to keep a cook.
:25:42
Excellent.
:25:44
I'm very pleased
the estate can afford such a living.
:25:50
I'm honoured to have as my patroness
Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
:25:54
You've heard of her, I presume?
:25:56
My small rectory abuts her estate,
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Rosings Park,
and she often condescends
:26:03
to drive by my humble dwelling
in her little phaeton and ponies.
:26:09
Does she have any family?
:26:11
One daughter, the heiress of Rosings
and very extensive property.
:26:15
I've often observed to Lady Catherine
:26:17
that her daughter
seemed born to be a duchess,
:26:21
for she has all the superior graces
of elevated rank.
:26:26
These kind of compliments
are always acceptable to the ladies,
:26:30
and which I conceive myself
particularly bound to pay.
:26:34
How happy for you, Mr Collins,
:26:37
to possess the talent for flattering
with such delicacy.
:26:42
Do these attentions proceed
from the impulse of the moment
:26:46
or are they
the result of previous study?
:26:48
They arise
from what is passing at the time.
:26:51
And though I do sometimes amuse myself
with arranging such little compliments,
:26:56
I always wish to give them
as unstudied an air as possible.
:26:59
Oh, believe me, no one would suspect
your manners to be rehearsed.