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Chapter LVII

, where Mr. Bennet, talking of Mr. Collins's correspondence, says:--

'When I read a letter of his, I cannot help giving him the preference even over Wickham, much as I value the impudence and hypocrisy of my son-in-law.'

It is the third edition that has here gone astray and misled all the others.

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