pride and predjudice proposal scenes
...ot go. Mr. Collins must excuse me. He can have nothing to say to me that anybody need not hear. I am going away myself."But Mrs. Bennett Makes a fuss about How Lizzy should stay and hear Mr. Collins out and so she decides not to argue with her mother and she stays. Mrs. Bennett and Kitty leave the room and as they shut the door Mr. Collins begins his proposal speech to Lizzy, he lets her know that he has “her respected mother's permission for this address.” meaning that he has already asked for Mrs. and Mr. Bennett's permission to marry her, I think it at this point that Lizzy begins to feel slightly worried about Mr. Collins' address. He then goes on to say “Almost as soon as I entered the house, I singled you out as the companion of my future life.” This must have given Lizzy quite a shock, because she knows Mr. Collins is about to ask her to marry him. When he then says “But before I am run away with by my feelings” Lizzy almost bursts out laughing because: “The idea of Mr. Collins, with all his solemn composure, being run away with by his feelings, made Elizabeth so near laughing, that she could not use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him further”. This is fairly amusing, as Lizzy meant to shut him up but couldn't and so Mr. Collins Continues by telling Lizzy the reasons for his marrying her: "My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example of matrimony in his parish; secondly, that I am convinced that it will add very greatly to my happiness; and thirdly-which perhaps I ought to have mentioned earlier, that it is the particular advice and recommendation of the very noble lady whom I have the honour of calling patroness.”Mr. Collins continues on the subject of how they are to be married and what shall happen when they are married. He concludes his speech by saying “On that head, therefore, I shall be uniformly silent; and you may assure yourself that no ungenerous reproach shall ever pass my ...