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One morning,about a week after Bingley"s engagement with Jane had been formed,as he and the females of the family were sitting together in the dining-room,their attention was suddenly drawn to the window,by the sound of a carriage;;and neither the carriage, nor tstantly prevailed on Miss Ben to avoid the confinement ntinued, though with little satisf intending to be surprised;but their astonishment was beyond their expectation;en inferior to what Elizabeth felt.
She entered the room with an air more than usually ungracious,made no other reply to Elizabeth"s salutation than a sligs entranoery concisely that she was.
“And that I about the grounds, walking with a young man who,I believe,will soon bee a part of the family.”
“You have a very small park here,”returned Lady Catherine after a short silence.
“It is nothing in parison of Rosings,my lady,I dare say;but I assure you it is much larger than Sir William Lucas"s.”
“This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer;then added:
“May Iht before last.”
Elizabeth now expected that she would produce a letter for her from Ch, with great civility, begged her ladyship to take some refreshment; but Lady Catherine very resolutely, and not very politely,declined eating anything;and then,rising up,said to Elizabeth,
“Miss Ben, there seemed to be a th your pany.”
“Go, my dear,”crieth obeyed, and running into hers into the dining-parlour and drawing-room,and pronouncing them,after a short survey,to be decent looking rooms,walked on.
Her carriage remained at copse; Elizabeth was determined to make no effort for conversation with a woman who was now more than usually insolent and disagreeable.
“How could I ever think her like her nephew?”said she,as she looked in her face.
As soon as they entered the copse, Lady Catherine began in the following manner:—
“You can be at no l
Elizabeth looked with unaffected astonishment.
“Indeed,you are mistaken,Madam.I have not been at all able to account for the honour of seeing you here.”
“Miss Ben,”replied her ladyship, in an aankness, and in a cause of such moment as this,I shall certainly not depart from it.A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.I was told that not only your sister was on the point of being most advantageously married,but that you,that Miss Elizabeth Ben,would,in all likewould not injure him so much as to suppose the truth of it possible,I instantly resolved on setting off for this place,that I might make my sentiments known to you.”
“If you believed it impossible to be true,”said Elizabeth, colouring with astonishmesist upon having such a report universally contradicted.”
“Your ing to Longbourn, to see me and my family,”said Elizabeth coolly,“will be rather a confirmation of it; if, indeed, such a report is in existence.”
“If!Do you then pretend to be ignorant of it?Has it not been industriously circulated by yourselves?Do you not know that such a report is spread abroad?”
“I never heard that it was.”
“And can you likewise declare,that there is no foundation for it?”
“I
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