Chapter 14
Mr. Collins at Longbourn table
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1 Mr. Collins solemnly praises Lady Catherine by candlelight at the Longbourn dinner table
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2 Mr. Collins solemnly measures an imaginary shelf, as Lady Catherine suggested
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3 Mr. Bennet listens gravely as Mr. Collins praises his patroness.
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4 Mrs. Bennet leans toward Mr. Collins, asking curiously if his patroness lives nearby
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5 Mr. Collins announces the wealth of Rosings’s sole heiress with solemn importance.
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6 Mrs. Bennet shakes her head at the heiress's good fortune, glancing at her own daughters
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7 Mr. Collins praises Miss de Bourgh, tracing her little phaeton's path above the table
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8 Lydia idly rolls a cherry stone across her plate while Kitty conceals a yawn.
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9 Mr. Collins dips his chin over the table, savouring his compliment to Lady Catherine
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10 Mr. Bennet asks if Mr. Collins rehearses his compliments; Collins is solemnly pleased
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11 Mr. Collins earnestly explains how he prepares compliments to sound spontaneous.
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12 Mr. Bennet maintains a grave face while Mr. Collins talks on.
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13 Mr. Collins recoils apologetically from the circulating-library novel in Jane's outstretched hand.
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14 Kitty stares in astonishment as Lydia exclaims at Mr. Collins refusing to read novels
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15 Mr. Collins ceremonially opens Fordyce’s Sermons across his knee.
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16 Mr. Collins reads with monotonous solemnity beside the warm hearth.
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17 Lydia interrupts Mr. Collins's reading with Meryton gossip, leaning toward her mother
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18 Mr. Collins presses his sermons almost closed, keeping one finger between the leaves.
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19 Mr. Collins answers Lydia's interruption with wounded solemnity by the glowing hearth
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20 Mr. Collins recovers his dignity by offering a game of backgammon.
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21 Mr. Collins, at backgammon, reassures the apologising Mrs. Bennet, Jane and Elizabeth
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22 Mr. Bennet shakes his dice cup while Mr. Collins carefully arranges the backgammon counters.
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23 Fordyce's Sermons lie closed by a candle beside Mr. Collins's empty chair at the hearth
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