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ade you an offer of marriage?”
“Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible.”
“It ought to be so;havest person to confess it.”
“Miss Ben, do you knowntitled to know all his dearest concerns.”
“But you are not entitled to know mine;nor will such behaviour as this,ever irs;that if he is so,you can have no reason to suppose he will make an offer to me.”
Lady Catherine hesitated for a moment,and then reploment when the wishes of both sisters would be acplished is their marriage,to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth,of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family! Do you pay no regard to the wishes of his friends?To his tacit engagement with Miss de Bourgh?Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy?Have you not heard me say that from his earliest hours he was dearrying your nephew,I shall certainly not be kept from it by knowisin,why is not he to make another choice?And if I am that choice,why may not I accept him?”
; for do not expect to be noticed by his family ord;your name will never even be mentioned by any of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole,have no cause to repine.”
“Obstinate,headstrong girl!I am ashamed of you!Is this your gratitude for my attentions to you termined resolution of carrying my purpose;nor will I be dissuaded from it.I have not been used to submit to any person"s whims.I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.”
“That will make your ladyship"s situation at present more pitiable;but ithe;and,on the father"s,freach other by the voice of every member of their respective houses;and what is to divide them?The upstart pretsensible of your own good,you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up.”
“In marrying your; I am a gentleman"s daughter; your uncles and aunts?Do not imagine me ignorant of their condition.”
“Whatever my connections may be,”said Elizabeth,“if your nephew does not object to them,they can be nothing to you.”
“Tell me once for all,are you engaged to him?”
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