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I made progress on the next chapter of LP&D, which is the chapter, at last:

It was during that third week that Mr Collins returned from his usual morning call to Rosings in a state of considerable excitement. Colonel Fitzwilliam and Miss Darcy had arrived at Rosings not long before, perhaps an hour, and he had seen them both. The ladies, even Elizabeth, listened carefully to all he could say of them. It was Mr Collins, so he took a great many words to say a very little, but he did manage to express that Miss Darcy was a handsome and elegant lady, equal to her cousin Miss de Bourgh, and Colonel Fitzwilliam was most amiable, as must be expected of a nephew of so affable and kind a patroness as Lady Catherine.

Elizabeth, though not inclined to trust Mr Collins’s opinions in most matters, supposed from this that Miss Darcy was not amiable, and Colonel Fitzwilliam was not handsome.

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