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When this information was given, and they had all taken their

seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire,

and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the

apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself

in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison

that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs.

Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its

proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one

of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the

chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all

the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a

comparison with the housekeeper's room.