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From the entrance hall, of which Mr. Collins pointed out, with a

rapturous air, the fine proportion and finished ornaments, they

followed the servants through an antechamber to the room where

Lady Catherine, her daughter, and Mrs. Jenkinson were sitting.

Her Ladyship, with great condescension, arose to receive them;

and as Mrs. Collins had settled it with her husband that the

office of introduction should be hers, it was performed in a

proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks which he

would have thought necessary.