Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen

After breakfast the next day, Mr. Bennet said to his wife: My dear wife, I hope you will prepare your lunch better today, because I expect there will be guests today. Which guest do you mean, my good lord?I don't even know who's coming, unless Charlotte.Lucas happened to be visiting us, and I thought it would be good enough to entertain her with our usual meals.I can't believe she eats so well at home so often. The guest I was talking about was a male guest and a stranger. Mrs. Bennet's eyes sparkled.A male guest is a stranger!It must be Mr. Bingley, and there is no mistake.Oh, Jane, you never got a word out, you crafty thing!Why, I am very glad that Mr. Bingley is coming.But for goodness sake!It's bad luck, I can't even buy any fish today.Lydia darling, ring the bell for me.I'm going to tell Hill right now.

Her husband hastened: It is not Mr. Bingley who is coming; as for the guest, I have never seen him in all my life. This sentence surprised the whole family.His wife and five daughters pressed him immediately, much to his delight. After teasing the curiosity of his wife and daughters for a while, he said literally: I got a letter about a month ago, and I wrote back a fortnight ago, because I thought it was quite a sad thing. Mind matters, you have to pay attention early.The letter is from my cousin, Mr. Collins.After I'm dead, this cousin can throw you out of this house whenever he likes.

Oh my God, his wife exclaimed.I can't bear to hear you bring this up.Please don't talk about that nasty guy.It is the most embarrassing thing in the world that you cannot let your own children inherit your own property, but let others inherit it.If I were you, I must have figured out a way to remedy this problem. Jane and Elizabeth managed to explain to her the question of inheritance.In fact, they have been unable to explain it to her, but this question is incomprehensible to her.She was always swearing, saying that her property could not be inherited by her five biological daughters, but it was so unreasonable to give it to someone who had nothing to do with them.

It was indeed a most injustice, Mr. Bennet said, and Mr. Collins was to inherit the Longbourne estate, and he could never be cleared of his guilt.But if you listen to what he has to say in this letter, you will soften your heart a bit, because he's showing that he's on the right side of things. No, I'm sure I'm not going to soften my heart; I think it's very rude and hypocritical of him to write to you.I hate such hypocritical friends.Why doesn't he quarrel with you like his dad did? Oh, really, he seems to be a little hesitant about this question out of filial piety, and let me read the letter to you!

Dear Elder: There was some rift between you and my late father, which has always troubled me.Ever since my late father passed away unfortunately, I have often thought of making up for this rift; but I hesitated for a while, and did not do so, because my late father was afraid of hating you, but today I come to repair it with you, which is unavoidable. Humiliate the ancestors.Listen carefully, my dear lady.But for now I am quite determined on the matter, for I was ordained on Easter.Domon so Liu Weiss.De.Caitlin, widow of Duke Bauer.De.Mrs. Bauer favored me with great courtesy and kindness, and promoted me to be the priest of the diocese. From then on, I can try my best to serve her around and follow all the ceremonies prescribed by the Church of England. It is a great fortune.Besides, as a priest, I feel that I have the responsibility to do my best to enable every family to cultivate friendship and promote friendship.I am therefore confident that this kindness will be valued by you, and that you will not mind my inheritance of the property at Longbourn.And please accept this olive branch from me.I am deeply disturbed that I have violated the interests of your nieces in this way, and I am extremely sorry, but please rest assured that I am willing to give them all possible compensations, and I will discuss this matter in detail later.If you have no objection to my coming to visit, I propose to come to visit at four o'clock on Monday, November 18, or even stay at the house until next Saturday.It was no inconvenience to me, for Lady Catelyn would never object to my leaving church now and then on a Sunday, so long as another priest presides over the day.Greetings to Mrs. Madam and all ladies and gentlemen.

Your well-wisher and friend William.Collins Written at Hansford, Kent, near Westerham, October 15th At four o'clock, then, the gentleman of peace will be coming, said Mr. Bennet, as he folded the letter.He's a very conscientious and polite young man, he must be; and I'm sure he'll be a worthy friend, if only Lady Catelyn would be kind enough to let him come to us again, all the better. . What he said about our daughters was all right; and if he really intends to try to make amends, I have no objection. Jiying said: He said he would compensate us, although we couldn't guess what he meant, but his kindness is indeed rare.

Elizabeth was greatly surprised to hear the strange respect he had for Lady Catelyn, and the kindness with which he was ready to christen, marry, and funeral the inhabitants of his own parish. I think he must be a queer man, she said.I really don't understand him.His writing seems pompous.What does he mean by saying that he is extremely sorry for inheriting our property rights?Even if it could be cancelled, let's not think he's willing to cancel it. Is he a sane man, papa? No baby, I don't think he will be.I totally think he is the exact opposite.It can be seen from the humility and arrogance in his letter.I really want to meet him.

Mary said: As far as the text is concerned, there seems to be nothing wrong with his letter.Although the term olive branch is not new, I think it is very appropriate. Neither the letter nor the person who wrote it meant much to Catelyn and Lydia.Anyway, they didn't think their cousin would come in a red uniform, and they hadn't been happy with anyone in any other color for weeks.As for their mother, the general grievances had been much dispelled by a letter from Mr. Collins, and she was prepared to see him in a rather calm manner, which seemed very strange to her husband and daughters.

Mr. Collins came punctually, and was received with great civility by the whole family, and Mr. Bennet said very little; but the ladies and the ladies were more than willing to chat, and Mr. Collins himself seemed to need no encouragement to talk, I don't plan on not talking either.He is a young man of twenty-five years old, tall and fat-looking, with a dignified and dignified manner and a strict etiquette.As soon as he sat down, he complimented Mrs. Bennet for her good fortune and having raised so many good daughters. He said that he had heard people praise their beauty a long time ago, but when they met today, they realized that their beauty far surpassed their reputation; He also said that he believed that the ladies would all have a happy marriage in due time.No one liked his flattery very much, but Mrs. Bennet, who could not bear a single flattery, replied with the utmost crispness:

I believe you are a good-hearted man, sir; and I hope to be like your Chrysostom, or they will be inconceivable.Things are so queerly arranged. You are probably talking about the inheritance rights of the property. Well, sir, I did speak of that.You have to admit, it's a real misfortune for my poor girls.I don't want to blame you, because I also know that things like this in the world are all about luck.Once a person's property is limited to heirs, then you have no way of knowing whose hands it will fall into. Ma'am, I know very well that this incident has hurt my cousins. I have many opinions on this issue, but I dare not be rash for a while.But I can assure the young ladies that I have come here to show them my admiration.I don't plan to say more at the moment, maybe in the future when we get along better

The host invited him to lunch, so he had to be interrupted.The ladies looked at each other and smiled.They were not the only ones Mr. Collins admired.He carefully looked at the living room, dining room, and all the furniture in the house, and praised them.Mrs. Bennet should have been pleased with his compliments, but it made her very sad to think that he regarded all these things as his own future property.Even the lunch was not appreciated by him, and he asked the host to tell him which cousin cooked such a good dish.When Mrs. Bennet heard his words, she could not help criticizing him.She told him rather bluntly that the family could still afford a decent cook and that the daughters would not need to be involved in the kitchen.He begged her forgiveness, not to take offense.So she said in a soft voice that she didn't blame him at all, but he kept apologizing for a quarter of an hour.