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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: very desirous of having them all to dine with her.
Elizabeth could not see Lady Catherine without recollecting that,
had she chosen it, she might by this time have been presented to
her as her future niece; nor could she think, without a smile, of
what her ladyship's indignation would have been. "What would
she have said? how would she have behaved?" were questions
with which she amused herself.
Their first subject was the diminution of the Rosings party. "I
assure you, I feel it exceedingly," said Lady Catherine; "I believe
no one feels the loss of friends so much as I do. But I am
particularly attached to these young men, and know them to be
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