Stubborn Child

I am furious with my Elizabeth! Our lovely cousin Mr. Collins asked her hand in marriage and she refused! How dare her act as if she has no sense! Surely Mr. Bennet and I have raised her much better than that! She is much too old to turn down an offer of marriage. Not to mention that Mr. Collins is to inherit our estate when Mr. Bennet passes! Now Lizzy has lost her chance to have our beautiful home. She has taken away the chance for any of our daughters to have it! Oh! What such action does to my nerves. I myself am much too old to deal with such ridiculous and humiliate behavior. To make matters worse, Mr. Bennet was not on my side at all! He told Lizzy he would never speak to her again if she accepted Mr. Collins, and I told her I would never speak to her again if she didn’t! What chaos! And just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse we were informed that, after Elizabeth’s rejection, Mr. Collins proposed to Charlotte Lucas and she accepted. I can’t bear the thought of her inheriting our estate along with Mr. Collins, instead of one of my own daughters! What a shame on Elizabeth, what a shame!

Mr. Collins