Chapter XIII.1. Mr. Bennet said:” I have reason to expect an addition to our family party." 2. “He is a gentleman, and a stranger." 3. Mrs. Bennet's eyes sparkled. I am sure I shall be extremely glad to see Mr. Bingley. There is not a bit of fish to be got to-day. 4. "It is NOT Mr. Bingley,". "it is a person whom I never saw in the whole course of my life." said Mr. Bennet. 5. "About a month ago I received a letter from my cousin, Mr. Collins, who, when I am dead, may turn you all out of this house as soon as he pleases." 6. …“do not talk of that odious man.” 7. Mrs. Bennet continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about. 8. “I think it is very impertinent of him to write to you at all. I hate such false friends. 9. …“he does seem to have had some filial scruples on that head, as you will hear." 10. "Hunsford, near Westerham, Kent, 15th October. 11. "Dear Sir, — I wish to heal the breach. … "WILLIAM COLLINS" 12. "He seems to be a most conscientious and polite young man." 13. …" it is difficult," said Jane, "to guess in what way he can mean to make us the atonement he thinks our due, the wish is certainly to his credit." 14. "There is something very pompous in his style.—And what can he mean by apologizing?—We cannot suppose he would help it if he could" 15. "I have great hopes of finding him quite the reverse. There is a mixture of servility and self-importance in his letter." 16. …"the letter does not seem defective. The idea of the olive-branch perhaps is not wholly new." said Mary. 17. Mr COLLINS was a tall, heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty. his manners were very formal. 18. "It is a grievous affair to my poor girls. I mean to find fault with YOU. There is no knowing how estates will go when once they come to be entailed. I am very sensible of the hardship to my fair cousins. I am cautious of appearing forward and precipitate. But I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them. 19. …girls smiled on each other. They were not the only objects of Mr. Collin's admiration…
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