During Jane s and Elizabeth s week in Mr. Bingley s home, Mr. Darcy starts to feel more attracted to Elizabeth, although he avoids contact with her and speaks to her only once. When they arrive home, two days before what Ms. Bennet expected, Mr. Bennet announces that a person he has never met, Mr. Collins, will arrive that night and stay for a while. Suddenly all the girls star to ask questions and Mr. Bennet is forced to read the letter he has received. In the letter, and during his stay, Mr. Collins shows a lot of pride, “as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility” (chapter 15), and admiration to his acquaintance, Lady Catherine. His awkward comments become a topic of discussion in the table, and afterwards, Mr. Collins invades Mr. Bennet s library, which then in revenge, Mr. Bennet decides to send him with his daughters to Meryton to see the soldiers. In Meryton, Elizabeth encounters Mr. Bingley, Mr. Darcy and Wickham together, and notices that they knew each other. After that they meet their aunt, who is making a party for the soldiers the following night and invites all the sisters to assist. Also it is revealed that Mr. Collins has finally decided who to marry, Jane, but Ms. Bennet tells him she is soon to be engaged, but that Elizabeth is free.
Vocabulary:
Thither: To or toward that place; in that direction
Located or being on the more distant side; farther
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