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Chapter thirteen
I hope my dear said mister bennet t to his wife as they were at breakfast
The next morning that you have ordered a good dinner today
Because i have reason to expect an addition to our family party
Who do you mean my dear
I know if nobody that is coming
I am sure
Unless charlotte luki should happen to call in
And i hope my dinners are good enough for her
I do not believe she often sees at at home
The person of who
My speak is a gentleman and a stranger
Mrs bennettt i sparkled a gentleman and a stranger
It is mr bingley
I am sure
Why jane you never dropped award of this use slighing well i am sure
I shall be extremely glad to see mister bingley
But good lord how a lucky
There is not a bit of fish to be got today
Liddia my love ring the bell
I must speak to hill this moment
It is not mister binley her husband
It is a person who might never saw in the whole course of my life
This rorosed a general astonishment
And he had plepleasure of being eagerly questioned by his wife and five daughters at once after amusing himself sometime with their curiosity
He does explained about a month ago i received this letter
And about a fortnight ago
I answered it for i thought at a case of some delicacy and requiring early attention
It is for my cousin mister collins who when i am dead
May turn you all out of this house as soon as as he pleases
Oh my dear cried his wife
I cannot bear to hear that mentioned pry do not talk of that audious man
I do think it is the hardest thing in the world
That your state should be entailed away from your own children
And i am sure
If i had been you
I should have tried long ago to do something or other about it
Jane and elizabeth attempted to explain to her
The nature of an entail
They had often attempted it before
But it was a subject on which mrs bennet t was beyond reach of reason
And she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling in a state away from a family of five daughters in favor of a man
Who nobody cared anything about it certainly is a most enniquitous affair said mister bennet t and nothing can clear mister collins from the guilt of inheriting lonborn
But if you will listen to his letter
You may perhaps be a little softened by his matter of expressing himself
No that i am sure
I shall not
And i think it was very important of him to write to you at all
And very hypocritical i hate such false friends
Why could not he keep on quarreling with you as his father did before him
Why indeed he does seem to have had some philial scruples on that head as he will hear hanzfd near wewesterham can't october fifteen dear sir
The disagreements exsisting between yourself and my late honored father always gave me much uneasiness
And since i have had them misfortune to lose him
I have frequently wished to heal the breach
But for some time i was kept back by my doubts fearing less it
It seem disrespepeful ful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone
With humhad had always pleased to be at variance
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There mrs bennet my mind however is now made up on the subject for having received ornation at easter
I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the right honorable lady catherine to borg widow of sir luwis to org whose bounty and beneficience has preferred me to the valuable rictory of this perish
Where itshall be my earnest deavver to demean myself with grateful respect towards her lady ship and be ever ready to perform those rights and ceremonies which are instituted by the church of england as a clergie man
Moreover i feel it
My duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families
Within the reach of my influence
And on these grounds i flatter myself
That my present overtures of goodwill are highly commenable
And that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of ggboura state will be kindly overlooked on your side
And not lead you to reject the offered doall of branch
I cannot be otherwise than concerned of being
The means of enjuring your amiable daughters and beg leave to apologize for it as well as to assure you of my readiness to make them every possible amense
But of this here after if you should have no objection to receive me into your house
I propose myself the satisfaction of waiting on you and your family
Monday
November eighteen ed by o'clock
Unshl probababtrutrupass on your hospitituntill ssaturday esa night
Following which i can do without any inconvenience as lady catherine is far from objecting to my occasional absence on a sunday provided that some other clergimen is engaged to do the duty of the day
I remain dear sir with respectful compliments to your lady and daughters
Your well wisher and friend william collins at four o'clock
Therefore we may expect this peacemaking gentlemen said
Mister bentt as he folded up the letter
He seems to be a most conscientious and polite young man upon my word
And i doubt not will prove a valuable acquaintance
Especially if lady catherine should be so inlgant as to let him come to us again
There is some sense in what he says about the girls
However
And if he is disposed to make them any immense
I shall not be the person to discourage him
Though it is difficult said jane to guess in what way he can mean to make us the attomment
He thinks are do the wishes certainly to his credit elizabeth was chiefly struck with his extraordinary difference for lady catherine and his kind intention of christening
Marrying and bearying his parsitioners
Whenever it were required he must be anoddy
I think said she i cannot make him out
There is something very pumpus in a style
And what can he mean by apologizing for being next in the inteil
We cannot suppose he would help it
If he could can he be a sensible man sir
No My dear
I think not
I have great hopes of finding him quite the reverse
There's a mixture of survilility and self importance in his letter
Which promises as well i am impatient to see him in point composition said mary his letter does not seem defective
The idea of the olive branch perhaps is not holly new
Yet
I think it is well expressed to catherine llidia neither the letter
Nor its writer were in any degree interesting
It was next to impossible
That their cousin should come in a sclit coat
And it was now some week
Since they had received pleasure from the society of a man in any other color as for their mother
Mister
Collins s's letter had done away of her real will
And she was preparing to see him with a degree of composwhich was astonished her husband and daughters
Mister collins was punctual to his time
And was received with great polghtness by the whole family
Mister bennet indeed said little
But the ladies were ready enough to talk
And mister colins seemed neither in need of encouragement
Nor inclined to be silent himself
He was a twll heavy looking young man at five and twenty
His air was grave in stately
And his matters were very formal
He had not been long seated before he complimented mrs bennet on having so fine a family of daughters said he had heard much of their beauty
But that in this instance fame had fallen short of the truth
And added that he did not doubt her seeing them all and due time well disposed of in marriage
This gallantary was not much to the taste of some of his hears
But mrs benett who called with no compliments
Answered most readingley you are very kind
Sir
I am sure
And i wish with all my heart
It may prove so for else they will be destitute enough
Things are settled so odly
You alude perhaps to the entail of this estate
Ah sir
I do indedeit it is gevous affair to my poor girls
You must can fess not that i mean to find fault with you for such things
I know are all chance in this world
There is no knowing how a states will go
When once they come to be entailed
I am very sensible madam of the hardship to my fair cousins
And could say much on the subject
But that i am cautious of appearing forward and preciped it
But i can assure the young ladies that i come prepared to admire them at present i will not say more
But perhaps when we are better acquainted
He was interrupted by a summons to dinner and the girl smiled on each other
They were not the only objects of mister collins 's admiration
The hall
The dining room and all its furniture were examined and praised
And his commendation of everything would have touched mrs bennethard
But for the modifying suposition of his viewing it all as his own future property
The dinner too in its turn was highly admired
And he begged to know to which of his fair cousins
The excellence of its coookary was owing
But here he was set right by mrs bennet who assured him with some asperity
That they were very well able to keep a good cook
And that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen
He begged pardon for having displeased her in a sofbendt
She declared herself not at all offended
But he continued to apologize for about a quarter of an hour
