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By
tea-time
,
however
,
the
dose
had
been
enough
,
and
Mr.
Bennet
was
glad
to
take
his
guest
into
the
drawing-room
again
,
and
,
when
tea
was
over
,
glad
to
invite
him
to
read
aloud
to
the
ladies
.
Mr.
Collins
readily
assented
,
and
a
book
was
produced
;
but
,
on
beholding
it
(
for
everything
announced
it
to
be
from
a
circulating
library
)
,
he
started
back
,
and
begging
pardon
,
protested
that
he
never
read
novels
.
Kitty
stared
at
him
,
and
Lydia
exclaimed
.
Other
books
were
produced
,
and
after
some
deliberation
he
chose
Fordyce
's
Sermons
.
Lydia
gaped
as
he
opened
the
volume
,
and
before
he
had
,
with
very
monotonous
solemnity
,
read
three
pages
,
she
interrupted
him
with
:
"
Do
you
know
,
mamma
,
that
my
uncle
Phillips
talks
of
turning
away
Richard
;
and
if
he
does
,
Colonel
Forster
will
hire
him
.
My
aunt
told
me
so
herself
on
Saturday
.
I
shall
walk
to
Meryton
to-morrow
to
hear
more
about
it
,
and
to
ask
when
Mr.
Denny
comes
back
from
town
.
"
Lydia
was
bid
by
her
two
eldest
sisters
to
hold
her
tongue
;
but
Mr.
Collins
,
much
offended
,
laid
aside
his
book
,
and
said
:
"
I
have
often
observed
how
little
young
ladies
are
interested
by
books
of
a
serious
stamp
,
though
written
solely
for
their
benefit
.
It
amazes
me
,
I
confess
;
for
,
certainly
,
there
can
be
nothing
so
advantageous
to
them
as
instruction
.
But
I
will
no
longer
importune
my
young
cousin
.
"
Then
turning
to
Mr.
Bennet
,
he
offered
himself
as
his
antagonist
at
backgammon
.
Mr.
Bennet
accepted
the
challenge
,
observing
that
he
acted
very
wisely
in
leaving
the
girls
to
their
own
trifling
amusements
.
Mrs.
Bennet
and
her
daughters
apologised
most
civilly
for
Lydia
's
interruption
,
and
promised
that
it
should
not
occur
again
,
if
he
would
resume
his
book
;
but
Mr.
Collins
,
after
assuring
them
that
he
bore
his
young
cousin
no
ill-will
,
and
should
never
resent
her
behaviour
as
any
affront
,
seated
himself
at
another
table
with
Mr.
Bennet
,
and
prepared
for
backgammon
.
Mr.
Collins
was
not
a
sensible
man
,
and
the
deficiency
of
nature
had
been
but
little
assisted
by
education
or
society
;
the
greatest
part
of
his
life
having
been
spent
under
the
guidance
of
an
illiterate
and
miserly
father
;
and
though
he
belonged
to
one
of
the
universities
,
he
had
merely
kept
the
necessary
terms
,
without
forming
at
it
any
useful
acquaintance
.
The
subjection
in
which
his
father
had
brought
him
up
had
given
him
originally
great
humility
of
manner
;
but
it
was
now
a
good
deal
counteracted
by
the
self-conceit
of
a
weak
head
,
living
in
retirement
,
and
the
consequential
feelings
of
early
and
unexpected
prosperity
.
A
fortunate
chance
had
recommended
him
to
Lady
Catherine
de
Bourgh
when
the
living
of
Hunsford
was
vacant
;
and
the
respect
which
he
felt
for
her
high
rank
,
and
his
veneration
for
her
as
his
patroness
,
mingling
with
a
very
good
opinion
of
himself
,
of
his
authority
as
a
clergyman
,
and
his
right
as
a
rector
,
made
him
altogether
a
mixture
of
pride
and
obsequiousness
,
self-importance
and
humility
.
Having
now
a
good
house
and
a
very
sufficient
income
,
he
intended
to
marry
;
and
in
seeking
a
reconciliation
with
the
Longbourn
family
he
had
a
wife
in
view
,
as
he
meant
to
choose
one
of
the
daughters
,
if
he
found
them
as
handsome
and
amiable
as
they
were
represented
by
common
report
.
This
was
his
plan
of
amends
--
of
atonement
--
for
inheriting
their
father
's
estate
;
and
he
thought
it
an
excellent
one
,
full
of
eligibility
and
suitableness
,
and
excessively
generous
and
disinterested
on
his
own
part
.
His
plan
did
not
vary
on
seeing
them
.
Miss
Bennet
's
lovely
face
confirmed
his
views
,
and
established
all
his
strictest
notions
of
what
was
due
to
seniority
;
and
for
the
first
evening
she
was
his
settled
choice
.
The
next
morning
,
however
,
made
an
alteration
;
for
in
a
quarter
of
an
hour
's
tete-a-tete
with
Mrs.
Bennet
before
breakfast
,
a
conversation
beginning
with
his
parsonage-house
,
and
leading
naturally
to
the
avowal
of
his
hopes
,
that
a
mistress
might
be
found
for
it
at
Longbourn
,
produced
from
her
,
amid
very
complaisant
smiles
and
general
encouragement
,
a
caution
against
the
very
Jane
he
had
fixed
on
.
"
As
to
her
younger
daughters
,
she
could
not
take
upon
her
to
say
--
she
could
not
positively
answer
--
but
she
did
not
know
of
any
prepossession
;
her
eldest
daughter
,
she
must
just
mention
--
she
felt
it
incumbent
on
her
to
hint
,
was
likely
to
be
very
soon
engaged
.
"
