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Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn. But if you will listen to his letter, you may
perhaps be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself."
"No, that I am sure I shall not; and I think it is very impertinent of him to write to you at
all, and very hypocritical. I hate such false friends. Why could he not keep on quarreling
with you, as his father did before him?"
"Why, indeed; he does seem to have had some filial scruples on that head, as you will
hear."
"Hunsford, near Westerham, Kent, 15th October.
"Dear Sir,--
"The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave
me much uneasiness, and since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequently
wished to heal the breach; but for some time I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest
it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with
whom it had always pleased him to be at variance.--'There, Mrs. Bennet.'--My mind,
annaabi.ee 
