Discussion of the Entail
Mrs. Bennet is horrified and rails against the entail that will deprive her daughters of their home. Jane and Elizabeth once again try to explain the nature of an entail, but Mrs.…
Reading Mr. Collins’s Letter
Mr. Bennet reads Collins’s letter aloud, dated October 15th from Hunsford, Kent. Collins expresses a desire to heal the old family breach, explains that he has received ordination…
Family Reactions to the Letter
The family reacts diversely: Mr. Bennet finds a promising mixture of servility and self-importance in the letter; Elizabeth is struck by Collins’s extraordinary deference to Lady…
Mr. Collins’s Arrival
Mr. Collins arrives punctually at four o’clock and is received with great politeness. He is described as a tall, heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty, with a grave and state…
Compliments at Dinner
Before dinner, Mr. Collins compliments Mrs. Bennet on her fine family of daughters, claiming fame has fallen short of their beauty, and expresses confidence they will all be well…
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Chapter XIV centers on dinner at Longbourn with Mr. Collins as a guest, where Mr. Bennet deliberately draws his obsequious cousin into praising his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Collins eagerly recounts the condescension he has received, while Mrs. Bennet, Mr.…
Dinner Conversation About Lady Catherine
Once the servants have withdrawn from dinner, Mr. Bennet, who has scarcely spoken during the meal, opens a conversation with his guest by remarking on Collins’s good fortune in ha…
Mr. Collins Praises His Patroness
Collins becomes eloquent in praising Lady Catherine, his manner growing unusually solemn as he protests he has never in his life witnessed such affability and condescension in a p…
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