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“This is not to be borne.Miss Bennet,I sist on beg satisfied. Has he,has my nephew,made you an offer of marriage?”
“Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible.”
“It ought to be so; it must be so, while he retas the use of his reason. But your arts and allurements may, a moment of fatuation,have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family.You may have drawn him .”
“If I have,I shall be the last person to confess it.”
“Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this. I am almost the nearest relation he has the world, and am entitled to know all his dearest concerns.”
“But you are not entitled to know me;nor will such behaviour as this,ever duce me to be explicit.”
“Let me be rightly understood.This match,to which you have the presumption to aspire,can never take place.No,never.Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter.Now what have you to say?”
“Only this;that if he is so,you can have no reason to suppose he will make an offer to me.”
Lady Cathere hesitated for a moment,and then replied:
“The engagement between them is of a peculiar kd. From their fancy, they have been tended for each other. It was the favourite wish of his mother, as well as of hers.While their cradles, we planned the union: and now, at the moment when the wishes of both sisters would be accomplished is their marriage,to be prevented by a young woman of ferior birth,of no importance 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 feelg of propriety and delicacy?Have you not heard me say that from his earliest hours he was dested for his cous?”
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