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long ago to do something or other about it."
Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain to her the nature of an entail. They had often
attempted to do it before, but it was a subject on which Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach
of reason, and she 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.
"It certainly is a most iniquitous affair," said Mr. Bennet, "and nothing can clear Mr.
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?"
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