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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: to be lamented, because there is reason to suppose as my dear
Charlotte informs me, that this licentiousness of behaviour in
your daughter has proceeded from a faulty degree of indulgence;
though, at the same time, for the consolation of yourself and
Mrs. Bennet, I am inclined to think that her own disposition
must be naturally bad, or she could not be guilty of such an
enormity, at so early an age. Howsoever that may be, you are
grievously to be pitied; in which opinion I am not only joined by
Mrs. Collins, but likewise by Lady Catherine and her daughter,
to whom I have related the affair. They agree with me in
apprehending that this false step in one daughter will be
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