Mrs Bennet Monologue from Pride and Prejudice, a play founded on Jane Austen's novel

From Pride and Prejudice, a play founded on Jane Austen's novel by Steele, Mrs. MacKaye

female · anguished · 1:09 min

Oh, that odious Mr. Collins! I wish he had never come here. I wish I might never hear his name again! (MR. BENNET: Mr. Collins odious! You surprise me! I thought that he had won your full approval.) (Fretfully.) Oh, well, since he had to be your cousin, and since you will not do anything about the entail, I suppose it will be a mercy if he does marry Jane. (Half crying.) But I do think, Mr. Bennet, it is the hardest thing in the world that we have no son of our own, so that your property has to be entailed away from your own wife and children, so if you should die, we may all be turned out of the house whenever this Mr. Collins pleases. (In bewailing tone.) He certainly does seem to have all the luck in the world. Here he has just got this good living from that grand Lady Catherine de Bourg.

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