“Very true, Miss Woodhouse, so she will. He is the very best young man⁠—But, my dear Jane, if you remember, I told you yesterday he was precisely the height of Mr. Perry. Miss Hawkins⁠—I dare say, an excellent young woman. His extreme attention to my mother⁠—wanting her to sit in the vicarage pew, that she might hear the better, for my mother is a little deaf, you know⁠—it is not much, but she does not hear quite quick. Jane says that Colonel Campbell is a little deaf. He fancied bathing might be good for it⁠—the warm bath⁠—but she says it did him no lasting benefit. Colonel Campbell, you know, is quite our angel. And Mr. Dixon seems a very charming young man, quite worthy of him. It is such a happiness when good people get together⁠—and they always do. Now, here will be Mr. Elton and Miss Hawkins; and there are the Coles, such very good people; and the Perrys⁠—I suppose there never was a happier or a better couple than Mr. and Mrs.

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