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Sorry about a weekend with no posts. Expect one soon!
Love you all,
Ross

So this is the chapter I hate reading, also I have been exhausted with end of the school year stoofs so please excuse this delayed post as per my usual lateness. 

    Okay so Lizzy decides the next morning to go for a walk but chooses to walk on a different walk because she doesn't want to run into Darcy. She gets to a point where it sort of looks over the property and sees a man coming towards her, out of fear that it is Darcy she starts to walk away, but the person calls her name and she has to stop. Turns out it was Darcy. He tells her he has been walking around looking for her all morning, thrusts a letter at her, requests that she read it, and walks away. 

The first thing that Darcy addresses is his involvement in separating Bingley and Jane. He says that at first he didn't think it was a big deal because Bingley had been "in love before" and he had apparently fallen just as easily out of love as he had fallen into it in the past. Then when he hears the rumors that they are practically already engaged he starts watching them and realizes that Bingley did appear to be a little further into this relationship than he normally would be but he also didn't think that Jane really returned his feelings. From where Darcy was standing Jane was just half-heartedly flirting with Bingley.
So Darcy talks to Bingley's sisters who he thinks have Bingley's best interests at heart (even though they are just trying to hook Miss Bingley up with Darcy) and so they put together the list of reasons why Bingley shouldn't marry Jane. After the whole list had been put to him (including how insane most of the rest of the family acts on a regular basis) Bingley is still set on marring her, that is until Darcy told him that Jane didn't return his feelings. Bingley relies so completely and loyally on Darcy's judgement that he then agreed to stay in London. Darcy also informs Lizzy that he had known that Jane was in London and had made sure that Bingley didn't find out about it because he believed he was protecting Bingley. Much like how Lizzy will leave this whole part of the letter out when she talks to Jane later because she doesn't want to hurt Jane. 
Anyway Darcy says he didn't mean to hurt Jane or Lizzy and admits that the dishonor that the rest of her family seems to portray with pride has evaded Jane and Lizzy and has left them respectable and awesome. Then Darcy continues to tell the horror story of Wickham.
    
      Wickham comes from a decent father who had quickly become good friends with and worked with Darcy Senior, and a mother who's luxurious lifestyle left the family poor and unable to fully take care of baby Wickham. As a result of this and baby Wickham's amazing ability to hide his real self and be an agreeable, likable guy Darcy Senior puts a lot of money into baby Wickham, he even sends him to good schools to receive a "gentleman's education." Because Darcy S. thought that Wickham would become an ordained minister in the church he left baby Darcy instructions to support Wickham in this pursuit and Darcy is willing to do so even though he knows that Wickham really needs to not be a pastor. So after Darcy S. and Wickham S. both die baby Wickham tells baby Darcy that he isn't joining the church (which Darcy was okay with) but that he is going to pursue law. Darcy gives him an agreed about amount of money in order to give Wickham the benefit of the doubt while also trying to honor his father's wishes. So Wickham goes off blows all of his money (never once actually pursuing any form of law education) and then when he is in massive debt comes running back to Darcy. Wickham claims he will be joining the church after all and asks Darcy for the money from the original deal, Darcy denies and Wickham commences with calling Darcy every name in the book and trying to blacken his name (much like what he does to Lizzy). It gets worse. 
   When Miss Darcy was only fifteen they sent her with a lady who ran a summer seaside resort named Miss Younge. Miss Younge had a secret plan set up with Wickham so soon he showed up and played with Miss Darcy's feelings so much that she believed that she was in love and even agreed to elope with him. She was young and stupid and she told her brother something about what was about to happen and so Darcy books it down there and gets there two days before they are supposed to elope. Miss Darcy tells her brother everything and Darcy gets very angry. He and his cousin (the Colonel) fire Miss Younge. Darcy also writes a very angry letter to Wickham who is conveniently no where to be found. Wickham was not only after Miss Darcy's money but after revenge on Darcy who he believed had deprived him of his inheritance.
The fact that Darcy told Lizzy this is proof of his trust in her and his feelings for her because it is something that very few people know about and he is relying on her keeping it a secret. This is important because her keeping this a secret comes back to haunt both of them in the long run. 
He ends the letter with "God bless you" and signs it Fitzwilliam Darcy (which I only include because of my love for the name Fitzwilliam). 

    I am going to leave you here for now because this is a lot to take in without adding Elizabeth's feelings on it which turn out to be all over the place. This is a crazy chapter because it just sort of drops the truth on you and allows Darcy fans to be like "woot woot!" Anyway I will be getting back hopefully tomorrow with the response chapters because classes have slowed down a little bit for now since there are only like 11 days left (Thank You Jesus!) and I will have less to worry about. 

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Forever your untimely writer,
Ross

I didn't forget you I will have time tonight to get the next post up! Sorry for the wait everyone.
Love,
Ross

Okay so this chapter starts off with the rest of the group gone to Rosings and Lizzy, still fuming, is reading through all of her letters from Jane in an attempt to look at them through her newly discovered "truth" about Mr. Darcy. She is fuming away when who should show up but Darcy himself.

Now picture this with me. The group shows up at the Rossings estate without Lizzy, they inform the other group that she is sick and immediately Darcy finds a way to get to the house to see her and he automatically starts asking her how she is feeling and if she is feeling better. After a few minutes of awkward silence with him walking pacing the room and acting strange he blurts out

   "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell               
    you how ardently I admire and love you."

Out of pure shock and disbelief Lizzy can do nothing but blush and stare at him while he continues to express his thoughts and feelings. He kind of ruins it though because he starts talking about how he is sacrificing a lot including the promise of good family connections to marry into such a family as Lizzy's. Which allows her to stop feeling bad about how bad she is about to shatter him. When she responds it is very blunt and almost cold. This ticks Darcy off because how dare she turn him down. and he very angrily asks why she turned him down and why the response she gave was so short. Lizzy replies with,
       "I might as well enquire (old spelling)... why, with so evident a design of offending and insulting
       me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against
       your character?... do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has
        been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?"

Lizzy continues to complain about his role and challenges him that he cannot deny how he ripped Jane and Bingley apart, even when it caused both of them pain and may lead to neither of them finding real happiness. At this point it says "He even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity." And honestly all I can think of is that he is in so much shock that this being the thing that turned her off his literally just making his sanity crack a little bit. To his credit he listens to every reason that she has against him without interrupting or correcting her even though she doesn't know the full story of anything she is at current blaming him for doing.
 Even when she brings up how he supposedly wrecks Wickhams life he says very little and his ultimate response ends up being that she would have married him if he had left out the part about how hard it was for him to give in to loving her. If he had only not mentioned how he had gone against everything that society and his upbringing had been telling him then she would have said yes. 
This gets Lizzy even more angry and she actually says some things she really shouldn't have said like, 
            "You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have
               tempted me to accept it."
Literary analysis time. Notice that she has so far used the word tempted twice. She is about to allude back to the first time that they had met and go off on a short tangent about how he has always been rude around and to her. The fact that tempted is used twice should remind us of the first ball that they both attended together and he in fact makes the comment that Lizzy is "not handsome enough to tempt" him. This reuse of the word brings the reader back to the time when instead of cheering for Darcy we all hated him. 

After she gets through telling him about himself and all of his rude, prideful, jerk-like faults he replies with saying she has said enough and he angrily apologizes for wasting her time and wishes her happiness and quickly leaves. 

Lizzy looses all of her energy and sits down and cries for a half and hour. It is right about now that she begins to appreciate the reason why Darcy was telling her all the things about going against his reason and judgement. "So much love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections which had made him prevent his friend's marrying her sister." 
When she hears the carriage pull up and announce that the rest of the household is back she hides herself in her room.

Because of all the feels I have decided to do this chapter and the next on their own and then I will pick back up with a few chapters at a time. Please do not give up on the story it gets better I promise. Trust me I refused to read this book for a week when I got to this chapter because I just could not handle the emotions that went with it. I would also encourage you to actually read the book because the emotions and the feels are higher and there are bits and pieces to the conversations that we skip over in these posts. 
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With great compassion for your feels,
Ross

Hey everyone! I would like to send a shout out to all the international friends I seem to be attracting, please feel free to follow the blog, Google tells me that now you can if you have a Google+ at least that's how I understand it, it seems that leaving comments should be available to the public now. 
Okay so I will be covering these two chapters then 34 and 35 separately, but I will be typing them tonight and posting them tomorrow. 

Now on with the show. 
  
     Alright, chapter 32 opens with Lizzy being at the parsonage by herself and who should show up but  "Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Darcy only" who comes in and sits awkwardly trying to talk to Lizzy. Now allow me to point out that this is abnormal of the time era and Darcy had thought the other women would be there which would have been acceptable. 

 Now that he is there he cannot bring himself to leave and they go back and forth about things like whether Charlotte lives close to her family or whether she lives farther away then can their amount of wealth can make comfortable. He ends up confusing her and at one point catching her off guard completely when he leans in closer to her and says "You cannot have a right to such very strong local attachment. You cannot have been always at Longbourn." 
Now what I get from that is that he is giving her an extreme complement. He is suggesting that she is from better breeding and that she acts as if she had at one point come from his level of society. Its sweet but a bit too much and he gets awkward so he picks up a news paper and hides behind it acting all cool. 
Then the other women show up and after a minute he leaves... wait didn't he just say that he thought they were there and that is why he came... HMMMMMMMMMM. Charlotte picks up on this and almost instantly says "My dear Eliza, he must be in love with you or he would never have called on us in this familiar way." They end up chalking his actions up to boredom because, after all, men can't spend all their time inside a house with an aunt like Lady Catherine. 
Either way both gentlemen make fairly common visits to the parsonage and Lizzy finds herself liking Fitzwilliam who tries to convince them that Darcy is less awkward at home. 
Charlotte starts watching Darcy because she is smart enough to pick up his very subtle hints of love but she doesn't push it in case she is wrong. 

Chapter 33 starts off cute and ends horribly. First Lizzy is walking one of the paths on the property and runs into Darcy and she tells him that it is her favorite path hoping that that will make him not want to take that path anymore. However she ends up seeing him all the time and he actually makes a point to turn and walk in the same direction that she is walking in and starts asking her a whole bunch of questions and she has no idea what to do with him. 
Then the bad news comes. One day she is out walking the same walk (funny enough she didn't put effort into changing her path even though Darcy kept coming) and she runs into Fitzwilliam. Fitzwilliam is supposed to be the smart one but instead he turns out to be a big gossip.The first thing we find out is that they haven't left yet because Darcy keeps putting off the day when the two men are supposed to leave which is mighty convenient. Then they start talking about Bingley and Fitzwilliam says that he has every reason to think that Darcy had helped him (Bingley) out of an almost mess because  Darcy was telling him that he recently saved a good friend of his from marrying into an undesirable marriage very recently and the only guy he was really spending that much time with was Bingley. Apparently "there were some very strong objections against the lady." 

Well Lizzy puts two and two together and realizes that Darcy is the main reason why Bingley is no longer expected to return to his Netherfield estate (which we learned during the awkward small talk in the last chapter). That's right folks Darcy split Bingley and Jane up. Lizzy is ticked off and makes herself so upset thinking about it that by the end of the night she has given herself a headache and made herself literally sick. She ends up deciding that she will not be going to Rosings that night to hang out with a man who (as far as she can tell) has rejected her family and broken her sisters pure heart. 


Alright everyone when you see the next to chapters you will understand why they are separate but for now you will just have to trust that I have your best feels at heart. Trust me you will want to deal with these feels one feel at a time. 

Anyway I am about to prepare the next few chapters for you so look forward to them with dread, I mean excitement. 
Your friend who currently has very literal cold feet and should probably find a blanket,
Ross 

Prepare yourself for the Darcy-fan-girl-squeeing. 

    Okay so the first thing that happens is that Charlotte's father leaves and Lizzy gets to inwardly pick on Mr. Collins some more. Mr. Collins spends most of his time outside in his garden waiting for carriages to pass, when they do he runs to the house tells all the ladies who just went past and then runs back to his garden. At this point in the story I think it is better to temporarily change his character to the post main in the Zelda games and give Excalibur to Lady Catherine for now. 
  Lady Catherine continues to critic everything that everyone does and when she deems Charlotte worthy enough of her presence she spends the whole time giving her advice about how she could be doing her job as a wife better, how she could manage her house better, and how her "joints of meat were too large for her family" and yes that is referring to actual meat. 
   Anyway things get boring then the Easter holiday comes around and they find out that Lady Catherine's nephews are coming and enter Mr. Darcy and his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam. And of course they know the minute that they get in because Collins is running back and forth to check to see when they come and they almost immediately call on Collins' house and Charlotte is like, "Thanks Lizzy since he definitely is not here to see me."
  Colonel Fitzwilliam is about thirty and not overly handsome, but he is very friendly and talkative and he takes to Lizzy rather quickly which makes Darcy jealous very quickly. Lizzy is too busy trying to
make Darcy look worse than he really is in her own head and honestly she does not get very far. 
  In chapter 31 we see Colonel F. flirting a lot with Lizzy he is being very charming they start talking about books and music and Darcy starts eyeing her because she is laughing and talking happily and he is so so so jealous that he can't make her laugh like that. Darcy isn't the only one who notices, Lady Catherine makes it a point to be overly nagging whenever they start talking in a manner she finds too friendly. At one point she actually manages to embarrass Darcy with her "ill breeding" meaning she was acting rude. 
  Then Colonel F. gets Lizzy to play on the piano for him and Lady Catherine starts talking to Darcy and he straight up walks away from her to listen to Lizzy. Lizzy starts to mess with him and he actually just smiles at her a lot. A few times he pokes fun at her too. At one point she brings up how rude he was at the ball and he says that he was never very good at being a people person and in a round about way she tells him its his fault for not trying and practicing. Mind you the whole time poor Fitzwilliam is sitting there being used rather than actually talked too and I sort of felt bad for him. 
  By far my favorite line is when Lizzy is threatening to tell his family how he was so rude and prideful at the Ball and he says "I am not afraid of you" and he smiles at her and the fan-girling just gets worse. 
  The chapter ends with the boys making her play until the carriage came to get them. 

I am sorry there wasn't another chapter originally the plan was to do three chapters but it is 12:33 where I am so I need to get some sleep. Anyway I will try to get more up this week in between the several papers that must be finished and the reading that my western civilization teacher throws at us. Please become minions (followers) if you do not have a blogger account then the only question is why not!!!! Also follow my on the tweeters @KauruRoss for updates when they happen.
Your forever friend and corespondent,
Ross

Hey everyone so sorry about being so late with this after promising it early I was called upon by visiting relations and unfortunately had delayed in listening to my relentless alarm clock until 11 leaving very little time for writing. Alright here we go though I must warn you these chapters are more set up chapters for what is about to happen and have very little in them of importance. 

Okay so Lizzy leaves to visit the Collins' newly weds and gets to stop by London to see her sister and her Aunt G.. Jane is feeling a bit better but is not really out of her broken-heart-ed-school-girl routine  yet, but she is making an effort. Aunt G. talks to Lizzy privately about Mr. Wickham and starts to get worried about the fact that he is all of the sudden hitting on Miss King who, conveniently enough, just experienced the loss of her semi wealthy uncle. Lizzy ends up arguing for him the whole time. As a reader who has already seen what happens this screams foreshadowing upon its second read and I would now like to once again take the time to remind you that Wickham is every bit as sketchy as Aunt G thinks he is. Also Lizzy gets invited to go for a sort of traveling vacation during the summer wither her aunt and uncle which she accepts THIS IS IMPORTANT.  

Alright, so Lizzy finally gets to the Collins' home. First Collins (the male Charlotte on her own will not be revered to as Collins) starts showing off his "humble home" and is pretty much gloating to Lizzy like, "see! see what you missed out on when you turned me down!" and Lizzy who sees this is just like "dude I still don't feel bad but how int he world does Charlotte put up with you?" We find out that Charlotte's answer to this question is that she encourages his gardening habit which keeps him out of the house, she uses her now much more vivid imagination, and later we find out she set up the room that she spends time in as far away from his study as possible. At one point Lizzy thinks something along the lines of "once Collins was out of the way Charlotte seemed very happy and so situated that it was possible he wasn't around very often" and so I guess that makes Charlotte a good pick for Collins if she can find ways to ignore someone so obnoxious. 


During their stay Collins makes it a point to repeat almost everything his wife says. She likewise waits till he is done with his "speeches" and then quickly, in one sentence, paraphrases what he said so that everyone who checked out the minute his mouth opened can get the gist of what was said. 

Then We meet Lady Catherine De Bourgh who is larger, loud, obnoxious, and so arrogant it honestly puts Collins and Excalibur to shame. She invites them to dinner and the whole time Collins is praising her literally worshiping her. The other Lucases are freaking out so badly that they hardly speak. And Lizzy is just like so you're rich want a cookie. Lady Catherine makes it a point to give all of the girls lectures on how to live. Is in awe of the fact that Lizzy's mother never hired a governess which back in the day would have been like someone saying they were home-schooled with an online program and their parents let them reap whatever they chose to sow. So she goes on about that while and then finds out that all of Lizzy's sisters have come out, meaning that they are all available for marriage. Okay history lesson for those who don't know girls back then would wait till about sixteen sometimes a bit older and then they would publicly "come out" in order to let the boys in town know that they could now request their hands in marriage. Normally the oldest would come out then be married then the the next would be allowed to come out. In a house of five girls you can imagine that would be hard since the girls who hadn't come out yet wouldn't be able to go dance at the balls if they could go at all.
 Well Lizzy is pretty chill and she explains that if she chose not to marry the first guy who asks her (which she did ha ha ) or if she were to choose to wait till she were ready to marry than it would hardly be fair to her younger siblings. Lady Catherine is appalled by this and asks how hold Lizzy is and Lizzy appalls her further by indirectly saying "really I have three grown younger sisters and you want me to own how old and unmarried I am thanks lady but nope." One does not simply refuse to answer Lady Catherine's questions. 

We also meet her daughter Miss De Bourgh who is described as sickly and small a lot like every time her name comes up it says sickly and small next to it. Lizzy makes an inward comment about her suiting Darcy. Miss Bourgh is Miss Darcy's contrast but we will wait to make that observation when we finally meet Miss Darcy (Darcy's little sister). 

So the only other thing that happens is Collins talks a lot about how rich Lady Catherine is. Also Austen seems to make fun of people in Lady Catherine's position because before the commoners leave her house for the night they "... gathered round the fire to hear Lady Catherine determine what weather they were to have on the morrow." WOW 

On that note I will promise to make no more promises about when blogs will be posted. I am sorry for not being a good steward of my time. I will try very hard to have more up tomorrow since we are about to get to the good yet horrible parts! Follow me here as a minion or on twitter @KauruRoss for updates when there are any. 
Your Procrastination Hero,
Ross

I promise that I will awaken early in the am to provide you with possibly several chapter sections of awesome snark filled summery(ies) tomorrow and on Sunday. I just can not make my creative juices revive themselves quite yet. Pray for me as I am currently experiencing a most unpleasant writers block that for the last two weeks has been getting worse and refusing to leave me. I am asymmetrical garbage. That is all.

Ross

Alright here we go, we are getting closer to the good parts so I am trying to rush through some of the less important chapters. These three are less important to the main plot and are more necessary because they sort of clean up the Mr. Collins and Mr. Bingley messes for now. 

Chapter 24 is the second letter from Miss Bingley which pretty much says they are never coming back and I really think my brother will marry Miss Darcy so ha ha you commoner of the farmland. The important part of this chapter is that we get a steady dialogue between Jane and Lizzy and we start to learn that Jane truly sees the good in everyone and that Lizzy tends to see the bad in everyone. Jane is making excuses and arguing that Miss Bingley wouldn't lie to her or deceive her and Lizzy is holding to her idea that this was just a big plot to get Mr. Bingley away from Jane because she isn't as high up on the money ladder as the Bingley's and Darcy's are.  

Most of this chapter we spend going oh my goodness Jane is adorable and the other half going oh my goodness can't you hate anyone you stupid naive girl!!!! Everyone but Jane can see that Miss Bingley is being a jerk and yet she is still holding out for her. Jane wont even let Lizzy get mad at Mr. Bingley because Jane is convinced that if he had really loved her than his family and friends could not have kept them apart, oh Jane why are you so innocent? 

Meanwhile Mrs. B is being as insensitive as ever by bringing up Bingley's name during every meal. Mr. B however is being as hilarious as ever by saying things like, "Hey Lizzy, so your sister was just in love now her heart is broken, don't you think its your turn? How long are you going to let her win this game? Hey I know how about you fall in love with Wickham because he is bound to break your heart and (direct quote->)... would jilt you creditably." FORESHADOWING. 

Speaking of Wickham convienently right after Darcy leaves town the whole town finds out about how badly Darcy has supposedly treated him. Again I remind you that if you were reading this you would believe him right now as Lizzy does, however, I am further than you are and so I hate him. Anyway the whole town believes it because they just love having reasons to hate Darcy because he comes across as majorly prideful. 

Chapter 25 is all about Collins and his marriage to Charlotte. He is busy expressing his overflowing love for a girl he just met. This is poking fun at the way love and marriage was done back then. Nevertheless I still feel a bit bad for him because if he really does believe he is in love with her than he is going to have a shock when he finally realizes she just puts up with him because she wants to make sure she is secure in life. This gets drastically contrasted with Mr. Gardiner who is Mrs. B's brother. Mr. G makes his money off of trade and lives "within view of his own warehouses" and his wife is young and intelligent. They both act respectively and live like well bred people of a higher class than they really are.
Mrs. G who already has heard what has happened with the Bingley nonsense offers to take Jane away to London with them to clear her head. They live on the other side of London so there is little to no chance that Bingley will find her though Jane still has hopes of seeing his sister at this point. We also learn Darcy's first name in this chapter I'm not sure we have learned it yet. It is Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. Its adorable and I want to name my first born son Fiztwilliam now not sure that it will ever happen though. 

Chapter 26 starts off with Mrs. G who also hears about Wickham and some killer foreshadowing takes place when she begs Lizzy to use her head and be cautious when dealing with him although she doesn't have a lot of information on him, only that she knew of him when she was little because she lived in the same area. 
Lizzy says that she isn't in danger of falling for Wickham and that she hopes that he is not in love with her because the match would be bad for him (oh this child) and she promises to be careful of him which is good since by the end of this chapter we find out that he is chasing some other girl because she has more money. You want to be like come on Lizzy you know you like him but she seriously barely reacts when he goes after a different girl she's just like yeah well she has more money and if I had had money he would have probably asked me to marry him already. 
The sad part of this chapter comes when Jane finally figures out that Miss Bingley doesn't like her. She goes to visit her and then waits four weeks for her to finally show up. When Miss Bingley does come she is very obviously unhappy about being there and Jane is just like well I don't know why you wanted to be friends with me so badly if you didn't even want to be my friend. And Jane even alludes to the idea that Miss Bingley's behavior and words seem to point towards deception. Jane is hurt but she decides to just focus on the good things in life and try to forget about the lot of them, not that she can say that in a mean way since she never once speaks very harshly. 
This is also the chapter where the wedding of Collins and Charlotte actually happens but it is pretty much skimmed over because I think everyone is tired of hearing about it. Mainly it is important because Lizzy shows herself to be slightly unforgiving and prejudiced so far against her friend who marries for marring's sake instead of any form of relative happiness. 

Okay well that is all for today I will try to have more up this week since it appears that this is a slow week. I hope everyone is enjoying it. Please become Minions if you aren't and I know there are more than two people reading these ... you know who you are. Also feel free to go back and read previous chapters to catch up or review. Follow me on Tweeter for updates @KauruRoss. 
Your caffeinated Writer,
Ross

Hey everyone so sorry that it has taken me so long college is busy sometimes so forgive me. I have also been working on finishing several books at once as well as writing my own plus homework so it takes me a while to actually find time to write about our lovely friends of Pride and Prejudice.

You should all know what the color means its sort of ugly so that means Mr. Collins is back. So in chapter 21 we see that Collins is not making too big of a deal he just is refusing to talk which is by no means a bad thing. Also he is speaking a lot to Miss Lucas (Charlotte) because at this point she is the only one where there is no tension. Lizzy thanks her but Austen lets us in on the secret. Charlotte is actually only talking to Collins because she doesn't want him to talk to Lizzy. She thinks that if she can get him to think of her more than Lizzy than she wont have to worry about Lizzy changing her mind and saying yes. 
In the middle of this scheming Lizzy flirts with Wickham who admits only to Lizzy that he chose not to be at the ball because if he had been there it would have been awkward and possibly caused a scene (spoilers DARN TOOT'N IT WOULD HAVE CAUSED A SEEN SHOW YOUR FACE AT A DARCY INVOLVED PARTY I DARE YOU YOU PUNK!) okay I'm better where were we. Ah so he flirts with Lizzy and walks her home and while they are all chatting Jane gets a letter.
This is important. Jane gets a letter from Miss Bingley (the jerk) saying that they have now all offically left for London and none of them will be back anytime soon and especially for the next six months none of them will be home including Mr. Charles Bingley. Miss Bingley goes on to talk about how amazing it will be if Bingley marries Darcy's sister and that they really have no hope or desire of wanting him to marry Jane. The whole time Lizzy is listening she is hating her. Miss Bingley is being oh so very polite and the whole time Lizzy knows that she is actually being a jerk. However poor Jane just thinks that she is telling her to be nice because Bingley obviously must like Miss Darcy and there is no way that Miss Bingley could be being dishonest because she isn't capable of such a thing in the eyes of Jane. Poor pure Jane who believes that everyone is good and loving like she is. Lizzy makes a few attempts and finally gets her to think that maybe there is still some hope that Bingley could still come riding on his white horse and be her prince charming. They decide to tell Mrs. B only what she needs to know and leave her thinking that Bingley will eventually be coming back, wouldn't want to bother her nerves any more than they are about to be. 
So this brings us full circle back to Charlotte and Collins who I cannot find an uglier color for. So Collins starts sneaking out early in the morning and starts courting Charlotte and one morning he "throw[s] himself at her feet" and they end up agreeing on getting married and of course her parents decide it's a good idea. Mrs. Lucas starts calculating how many days Mr. Bennet has left in him and Sir Lucas is likewise already making plans for his daughter and her soon to be husband to be living at least part time in the Lonbbourn estate (the Bennet house). Her sisters are happy because now they can start courting earlier and her brothers are just happy she wont be "dying an old maid." As for Charlotte she doesn't like Collins she doesn't find any part of him attractive or appealing but he wanted to marry her and now she wouldn't have to worry about where her bread and butter will come from for the rest of her life because she was guaranteed a house and steady income.
Collins on the other hand believes he is in love and can hardly keep the news to himself but does because Charlotte wants to tell Lizzy first and make sure she is not too badly hurt. So he leaves and because Mrs. B does know her manners sometimes she says the customary "come on back soon" and he says "oh I was hoping you would say that" and Mr. B gets afraid that he will come back and tries to encourage him to stay home but Mr. Collins doesn't actually get any hints ever so he just wishes everyone health and happiness ( and intentionally mentions that this goes for Lizzy as well) and gets in his carriage and rides away. 
The Charlotte shows up and tells Lizzy and Lizzy's overall reaction is this "And to the pang of a friend disgracing herself and sunk in her esteem was added the distressing conviction that is was impossible for that friend to be tolerably happy in the lot she had chosen." So she isn't really angry at loosing Collins (who would be lets be honest) but she is disappointed in her best friend who has pretty much just sold out. 
Now I would like to point out something else. Collins waited a mere three days before asking another girl to marry him. Seriously. Three days between asking two completely different girls to marry him. Three Days. THREE. DAYS. That's it. Just three. Jerk. 
So the next day Sir Lucas comes and tells them that Collins and his daughter are getting married and at first Mrs. B is like "no he wants to marry Lizzy duh" and then she throws a tantrum. Actually its like several months of brooding and being angry. Lady Lucas is also not handling this with grace she finds it just as fulfilling to rub Mrs. B's nose in this engagement because of all the big talk she was doing about Jane and Bingley which no one really knows isn't going to happen yet as far as Jane and Lizzy are concerned. 
Fourteen days after he leaves Collins comes back and marries Charlotte. The whole time all of this is happening Mrs. B keeps bringing up how unhappy it is that Bingley isn't back yet and the whole time Jane is silently freaking out. She waits in vain for a response to the letter she sent Miss Bingley, and starts to believe that Bingley really doesn't have feelings for her. Lizzy is likewise getting worried that Miss Bingley has succeeded in convincing Mr. Bingley to marry Miss Darcy. 
Mrs. Bennet just becomes a  useless whiner who complains and gripes at everyone and who outwardly dislikes and blames Lizzy for all of what has happened, including anything else happening in the world like starving children in sweat shops and coal mines you know the things that are obviously Lizzy's fault. 
This chapter and the first part of the book ends with Mrs. Bennet bringing up an actual issue. The issue of entailment which is what says that Collins gets their house when Mr. Bennet dies. Now I remind you that though this is normal it is still unfair because if you look at Mr. Collins' patroness you see she is a widow who still has all her fortune and no new husband and no nephew owning her things. So we see the real unfair lifestyle of the day and get a look at the hard issues of the era that people had to just deal with. Even Mr. Bennet has no answer for why the entailment is he just knows that that's how the cookie crumbles. 

Okay so that is the end of part one of the book. I will try my best to blog more this week. Please feel encouraged to become a minion of my page (because that is kooler than becoming a follower) and find me on the tweeter for immediate update updates at @KauruRoss. I hope you have enjoyed my view on Pride and Prejudice keep a wary eye on the page and feel free to comment or ask questions,
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Ross