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“The banns!” Mrs. Bennet cried. “The banns, you say? That my daughter and Mr. Darcy of Pemberley should be made to post marriage banns as if they were common villagers—like those radical Quakers or those foreign Jews!”

“If you do not include such commoners in your society,” asked Mr. Bennet, “how would you know them to be foreign or radical?”