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“Catherine listened with astonishment; she knew not how to reconcile two such very different accounts of the same thing; for she had not been brought up…to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead. Her own family were plain, matter-of-fact people who seldom aimed at wit of any kind; her father, at the utmost, being content with a pun and her mother with a proverb.”