Pride and Prejudice

Read Time < 1 mins   Mrs. Bennet is extremely upset at the news of the thwarted marriage proposal. In her mind, a match with Mr. Collins would have been advantageous in securing her family’s future at Longbourn. However, Mr. Bennet applauds Elizabeth’s rejection of Mr. Collins. Even when Mrs. Bennet implores her husband to intervene, he refuses.   During this confusion […]

Read Time < 1 mins   Mr Collins decides the moment for his proposal has arrived. He receives Mrs Bennet’s approval. Elizabeth is left alone with Collins. He explains that it is his religious duty to marry and furthermore Lady Catherine has advised him to do so. A marriage between them would smooth over his inheriting Longbourn. Generously, he is

Read Time 2 mins Mr Wickham is not present at the ball. Elizabeth is disappointed and angry with Darcy. She can hardly be civil to him. Dancing with Collins proves to be a mortifying experience. Elizabeth is talking to Charlotte Lucas when they are surprised by Darcy and, almost by mistake, Elizabeth accepts his offer for a dance. Conversation

Read Time < 1 mins     Led on by Mr Bennet, Mr Collins praises his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and her kindness to him, which he regards as unusual, given her rank. She has advised him to get married, and her interest in his welfare extends even to the improvement of his kitchen cupboards. Mr Bennet quietly makes

Read Time < 1 mins   ‘Elizabeth related to Jane the next day what had passed between Mr. Wickham and herself. Jane listened with astonishment and concern; she knew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr. Bingley’s regard; and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man

Read Time < 1 mins   As no objection was made to the young people’s engagement with their aunt, and all Mr. Collins’s scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the girls had the

Read Time < 1 mins   Mr. Collins was not a sensible man. His position as Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s pastor had brought conceit. He was a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility. His plan on coming to Longbourn was to choose one of his cousins to marry as an appeasement to the entail. His first choice was

Read Time < 1 mins   Mr Bennet tells his family that his cousin, Mr Collins, is coming to dinner. It is he who will inherit the Longbourn property on the death of Mr Bennet. Mr Bennet has never met Collins because of a quarrel with his father. Mrs Bennet cannot bear the thought of him or the entailment of

Read Time < 1 mins   In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to their mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane’s week,

Read Time < 1 mins   Jane is well enough to join the others in the drawing room. Elizabeth notes how Bingley takes care of Jane and is pleased. This evening they do not play cards. Darcy is reading, but Miss Bingley is intent on obtaining his attention. She interrupts him, he answers and then resumes his reading. Only when