ElizabethYou are too hasty, sir.
ElizabethYou forget that I have made no answer.
ElizabethLet me do it without further loss of time.
ElizabethAccept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me.
ElizabethI am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than decline them.
Mr. Collins replied with a formal wave of the hand.
Mr. CollinsI am not now to learn that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour;
Mr. CollinsAnd that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time.