Chapter 15

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌⁠Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms without forming at it any useful acquaintance. The subjection in which his father had b