"Pride and Prejudice"
by Jane Austen

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     "She did not choose it," said her daughter, "she would go."

     "She is a very fine-looking woman! and her calling here was prodigiously civil! for she only came, I suppose, to tell us the Collinses were well. She is on her road somewhere, I dare say, and so, passing through Meryton, thought she might as well call on you. I suppose she had nothing particular to say to you, Lizzy?"

     Elizabeth was forced to give into a little falsehood here; for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible.

 
 
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