Evening chapter

I'm done with 13 of 61 chapters, so with more than 20 percent of this novel  :)  Here's the next chapter:
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5:55 p.m.  Chapter XIV is four pages.

5:57 p.m.  More indirect speech  :)  and this time it's the job description of a parson.  And of what his patroness would like him to change in his "closet up stairs," but without a discussion of her reasons  ;)

6:01 p.m.  "That is all very proper and civil, I'm sure."  Where "that" means Lady Catherine's interest in Mr. Collins' "closet up stairs," I'm sure  ;)

6:07 p.m.  He is "... happy on every occasion to offer those little delicate compliments which are always acceptable to ladies"  ;)

6:09 p.m.  I'm beginning to like this device!  :)  Austen's brilliant---she writes that Mr. Collins "never read(s) novels!"  Her readers are, obviously, reading a novel  :)  and this is a sure way of showing them his character.  Inside three words  :)

6:13 p.m.  Done!  Or in other words:  Thank you, Ms. Austen, the case is submitted  :)  More tomorrow morning---