to the any of the five Bennet offspring due to their gender. Even though Mr. Bennett considers Collins "absurd" and "not a sensible man", he warns that "when I am dead [Collins has the power to] turn you all out of this house as soon as he pleases" (46). Collins efforts to adhere to "filial scruples" by proposing to Elizabeth are met unfavorably when Elizabeth rejects his proposal and dismisses his intentions by telling him that he has "satisfied the delicacy of ... feelings with regard to my family" (82). Unmotivated by neither love nor money, Elizabeth cannot consider Collins as a mate because he "could not make me happy" (82). When Collins turns to Elizabeth's friend, Charlotte, he finds her more amenable to his pro
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