Against The System

Chapter 57

The two honorable men left Rosings the following morning, and Mr. Collins having

been in holding up close to the hotels, to make them his splitting regard, had the option to

bring back the satisfying knowledge, of their showing up in generally excellent wellbeing, and

in as decent spirits as could be anticipated, after the despairing scene so of late

gone through at Rosings. To Rosings he then rushed, to comfort Woman

Catherine and her girl; and on his return brought back, with extraordinary

fulfillment, a message from her ladyship, bringing in that she felt herself so dull

as to make her extremely covetous of having them all to eat with her.

Elizabeth couldn't see Woman Catherine without recalling that, had she

picked it, she could at this point have been introduced to her as her future niece;

nor might she at any point think, without a grin, of what her ladyship's irateness would

have been. "What might she have said? how might she have acted?" were

inquiries with which she entertain