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Post by Austenite on Sept 19, 2008 16:00:42 GMT -5
Hesitantly, she put her hand on his arm as he escorted her to the butchers. Surely he didn't fawn over his cousins like this did he? What would Lizzy have to say if she saw them in such a manner? She shook off her thoughts and tried to focus on his good qualities, "So, Mr. Collins, what do you do in your spare time?"
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Post by Georgiana Darcy on Sept 27, 2008 11:29:46 GMT -5
"Why miss. charlotte, i tend to my home and my study of the good word" he replies
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Post by Austenite on Sept 27, 2008 16:00:09 GMT -5
Charlotte laughed softly, "Surely a man such as yourself does something else to fill his time. Perhaps you read a bit of poetry, dare I hope Byron?"
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Post by Georgiana Darcy on Sept 27, 2008 19:40:09 GMT -5
"Very rarely for the Lord's word hold all the enjoyment a man could want." he replied.
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Post by Austenite on Sept 28, 2008 12:51:58 GMT -5
She nodded her head briskly, "I see. So do you find Byron to be unacceptable to the female sex, or just to the peoples who hold the office of the Clergy?"
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Post by Georgiana Darcy on Sept 29, 2008 6:38:42 GMT -5
"As a man hiomself I do not care for him, he lives a life of sin." Mr. Collins replied
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Post by Austenite on Sept 29, 2008 20:34:08 GMT -5
"But surely you cannot condemn a man for where circumstances of life has thrown him. It doesn't make rational sense." Charlotte looked queerly at Mr. Collins. The man, even though he seemed quite educated, seemed to miss the broader picture.
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Post by Georgiana Darcy on Sept 30, 2008 6:29:53 GMT -5
"The name is the gossip of London with his bedroom scandals, Miss. Charlotte." he shot back. "Forgive my tongue and its rudeness that was inappropriate."
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Post by Austenite on Sept 30, 2008 17:44:56 GMT -5
Charlotte huffed, "Your rudeness does not bother me, Mr. Collins, whereas your lack of compassion does quite bother me."
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Post by Georgiana Darcy on Oct 1, 2008 6:25:23 GMT -5
"Compassion for what? Sin? No, I have no compassion for that" Mr. Collins Responded
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Post by Austenite on Oct 1, 2008 16:42:35 GMT -5
"Not for sin, sirrah, but for the loss of what he held dear. Last time I checked, the ton was rife with sin, yet no one takes them to task for it because they have money and title enough to protect them from censure. Lord Byron was only recently granted his title and had to work his way up the ranks. His life was far harder than either yours or mine. We were born to our station, we never had to overcome it; as my father did." Charlotte didn't know why she felt so passionately about the subject. Maybe it was because Byron's words had expressed some of her feelings she had to supress.
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Post by Georgiana Darcy on Oct 1, 2008 18:09:45 GMT -5
"The Ton may hold sin but the scandals are behind doors most of the time his are out for all to see and I do not feel that women should read the works of such a person." He responded sternly.
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Post by Austenite on Oct 2, 2008 15:52:01 GMT -5
"So you do not think it good for woman to be educated on the baser side of life? Not all ladies born into certain circles stay there. I'd rather know about something bad to befall me than to live in ignorance, don't you agree?"
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Post by Georgiana Darcy on Oct 4, 2008 6:18:40 GMT -5
"The only tasks of women are to keep their familys running and to not give scandal to their husbands." he responds
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Post by Austenite on Oct 4, 2008 19:14:31 GMT -5
"You are saying you think women should have no place in society other than to be brood mares? Be socail hostesses? Play the pretty little tune in the corner and such? Warm the men's beds? Come now, Mr. Collins, I am no fool! I have an eduaction over that of apperantly a vicar."
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