In "Pride and Prejudice", Mrs. Bennet says, "The country is a vast deal pleasanter" than this city
... along the lines of "we 
dine with four and twenty families" and then the sister laugh because 24... [DOC] [TLE]   "The Annotated Pride and Prejudice"   ... [PAR]   The Annotated Pride and Prejudice    - RuLit 
... Miss Bingley, in her zeal to denounce Elizabeth, simply says the same thing 
twice).