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"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 in to a little falsehood here; for

to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was

impossible.

CHAPTER LVII.