Secure of success, Mr. Collins makes Elizabeth a long and pompous offer of marriage, treating her refusals as the coyness of an elegant female. Elizabeth declines him in earnest; her mother is thrown into outrage, but her father quietly takes her side.
Chapter XXII
Within days Mr. Collins transfers his addresses to Charlotte Lucas, who accepts him with clear eyes, wanting an establishment of her own.
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