Collins

Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, “that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time.

Collins, very gravely--“but I cannot imagine that her Ladyship would at all disapprove of you.

Collins, who entered with an air more stately than usual, and on perceiving whom, she said to the girls,--

Collins and me have a little conversation together.”