“I cannot be otherwise than concerned at being the means of injuring your amiable daughters, and beg leave to apologise for it, as well as to assure you of my readiness to make them every possible amends . . .”
Mr. Collins, in his letter to Mr. Bennet
The Bennet girls will not want his amends.
Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 1, Ch. 13
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“It certainly is a most iniquitous affair,” said Mr. Bennet, “and nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn.”
Rational Mr. Bennet, being somewhat irrational for the sake of appeasing his wife, regarding the entail that cuts his five daughters out of inheriting the family home
Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 1, Ch. 13
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