Chapter 66Mr Collins was not a reasonable man, and the lack of nature had been little supported by education or society; he spent most of his life under the guidance of an uneducated and miserly father; and although he belonged to one of the universities, he had only met the necessary deadlines without making any useful acquaintance. The subservience in which his father had raised him had originally given him a great humility; but this has now been counteracted much by the overconfidence of a weak head who lived in seclusion, and the resulting feelings of early and unexpected prosperity. A happy coincidence had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when Hunsford's apartment was vacant; and the respect he felt for her high rank, and his reverence for her as his patroness,
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