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What a superbly featured room
and what excellent potatoes.
:26:05
It's many years since
I've had such an exemplary vegetable.
:26:09
To which fair cousin should I compliment
the excellence of the cooking?
:26:14
We are perfectly able to keep a cook.
:26:16
Excellent.
:26:18
I'm very pleased
the estate can afford such a living.
:26:25
I'm honoured to have as my patroness
Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
:26:28
You've heard of her, I presume?
:26:31
My small rectory abuts her estate,
:26:35
Rosings Park,
and she often condescends
:26:38
to drive by my humble dwelling
in her little phaeton and ponies.
:26:43
Does she have any family?
:26:45
One daughter, the heiress of Rosings
and very extensive property.
:26:50
I've often observed to Lady Catherine
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that her daughter
seemed born to be a duchess,
:26:55
for she has all the superior graces
of elevated rank.
:27:01
These kind of compliments
are always acceptable to the ladies,
:27:04
and which I conceive myself
particularly bound to pay.
:27:09
How happy for you, Mr Collins,
:27:11
to possess the talent for flattering
with such delicacy.
:27:17
Do these attentions proceed
from the impulse of the moment
:27:20
or are they
the result of previous study?
:27:23
They arise
from what is passing at the time.
:27:26
And though I do sometimes amuse myself
with arranging such little compliments,
:27:30
I always wish to give them
as unstudied an air as possible.
:27:34
Oh, believe me, no one would suspect
your manners to be rehearsed.
:27:44
After dinner, I thought
I might read to you for an hour or two.
:27:47
I have with me Fordyce's Sermons
:27:50
which speak very eloquently
on all matters moral.
:27:55
Are you familiar with Fordyce's Sermons,
Miss Bennet?