decorum

Rachel Lynde’s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs.

“Because honour, decorum, prudence--nay, interest--forbid it.

It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.”

Collins’s fancying himself in love with her friend had once occurred to Elizabeth within the last day or two: but that Charlotte could encourage him seemed almost as far from possibility as that she could encourage him herself; and her astonishment was consequently so great as to overcome at first the bounds of decorum, and she could not help crying out,--