When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor--when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room.
Cette comparaison ne produisit pas d’abord tout l’effet qu’il en attendait, mais quand il expliqua ce que c’était que Rosings, quelle en était la propriétaire, et comment la cheminée d’un des salons avait couté 800 livres a elle seule, Mrs. Philips comprit l’honneur qui lui était fait et aurait pu entendre comparer son salon a la chambre de la femme de charge sans en etre trop froissée.