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1"Obstinate, headstrong girl! I am ashamed of you! Is this your gratitude for my attentions to you last spring? Is
2nothing due to me on that score? Let us sit down. You are to understand, Miss Bennet, that I came here with the
3determined resolution of carrying my purpose; nor will I be dissuaded from it. I have not been used to submit to any
4person's whims. I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment." "That will make your Ladyship's situation at
5present more pitiable; but it will have no effect on me." "I will not be interrupted! Hear me in silence. My daughter
6and my nephew are formed for each other. They are descended, on the maternal side, from the same noble line; and, on the
7father's, from respectable, honourable, and ancient, though untitled, families. Their fortune on both sides is splendid.
8They are destined for each other by the voice of every member of their respective houses; and what is to divide
9them?--the upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune! Is this to be endured? But it
10must not, shall not be! If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have
11been brought up." "In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I
12am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal." "True. You are a gentleman's daughter. But what was your mother? Who
13are your uncles and aunts? Do not imagine me ignorant of their condition." "Whatever my connections may be," said
14Elizabeth, "if your nephew does not object to them, they can be nothing to you." "Tell me, once for all, are you engaged
15to him?" Though Elizabeth would not, for the mere purpose of obliging Lady Catherine, have answered this question, she
16could not but say, after a moment's deliberation,-- "I am not." Lady Catherine seemed pleased. "And will you promise me
17never to enter into such an engagement?" "I will make no promise of the kind." "Miss Bennet, I am shocked and
18astonished. I expected to find a more reasonable young woman. But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever
19recede. I shall not go away till you have given me the assurance I require." "And I certainly never shall give it. I am
20not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable. Your Ladyship wants Mr. Darcy to marry your daughter; but
21would my giving you the wished-for promise make their marriage at all more probable? Supposing him to be attached to me,
22would my refusing to accept his hand make him wish to bestow it on his cousin? Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the
23arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was
24ill-judged. You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these. How far
25your nephew might approve of your interference in his affairs, I cannot tell; but you have certainly no right to concern
26yourself in mine. I must beg, therefore, to be importuned no further on the subject." "Not so hasty, if you please. I
27have by no means done. To all the objections I have already urged I have still another to add. I am no stranger to the
28particulars of your youngest sister's infamous elopement. I know it all; that the young man's marrying her was a
29patched-up business, at the expense of your father and uncle. And is such a girl to be my nephew's sister? Is her
30husband, who is the son of his late father's steward, to be his brother? Heaven and earth!--of what are you thinking?
31Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?" "You can now have nothing further to say," she resentfully answered.
32"You have insulted me, in every possible method. I must beg to return to the house." And she rose as she spoke. Lady
33Catherine rose also, and they turned back. Her Ladyship was highly incensed. "You have no regard, then, for the honour
34and credit of my nephew! Unfeeling, selfish girl! Do you not consider that a connection with you must disgrace him in
35the eyes of everybody?" "Lady Catherine, I have nothing further to say. You know my sentiments." "You are then resolved
36to have him?" "I have said no such thing. I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion,
37constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me." "It is well. You
38refuse, then, to oblige me. You refuse to obey the claims of duty, honour, and gratitude. You are determined to ruin him
39in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world." "Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude,"
40replied Elizabeth, "has any possible claim on me, in the present instance. No principle of either would be violated by
41my marriage with Mr. Darcy. And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the
42former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern--and the world in general would have
43too much sense to join in the scorn." "And this is your real opinion! This is your final resolve! Very well. I shall now
44know how to act. Do not imagine, Miss Bennet, that your ambition will ever be gratified. I came to try you. I hoped to
45find you reasonable; but depend upon it I will carry my point." In this manner Lady Catherine talked on till they were
46at the door of the carriage, when, turning hastily round, she added,-- "I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no
47compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased." Elizabeth made no answer;
48and without attempting to persuade her Ladyship to return into the house, walked quietly into it herself. She heard the
49carriage drive away as she proceeded upstairs. Her mother impatiently met her at the door of her dressing-room, to ask
50why Lady Catherine would not come in again and rest herself. "She did not choose it," said her daughter; "she would go."
51"She is a very fine-looking woman! and her calling here was prodigiously civil! for she only came, I suppose, to tell us
52the Collinses were well. She is on her road somewhere, I dare say; and so, passing through Meryton, thought she might as
53well call on you. I suppose she had nothing particular to say to you, Lizzy?" Elizabeth was forced to give in to a
54little falsehood here; for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible. [Illustration: "But now it
55comes out" ] CHAPTER LVII. [Illustration] The discomposure of spirits which this extraordinary visit threw Elizabeth
56into could not be easily overcome; nor could she for many hours learn to think of it less than incessantly. Lady
57Catherine, it appeared, had actually taken the trouble of this journey from Rosings for the sole purpose of breaking off
58her supposed engagement with Mr. Darcy. It was a rational scheme, to be sure! but from what the report of their
59engagement could originate, Elizabeth was at a loss to imagine; till she recollected that his being the intimate friend
60of Bingley, and her being the sister of Jane, was enough, at a time when the expectation of one wedding made everybody
61eager for another, to supply the idea. She had not herself forgotten to feel that the marriage of her sister must bring
62them more frequently together. And her neighbours at Lucas Lodge, therefore, (for through their communication with the
63Collinses, the report, she concluded, had reached Lady Catherine,) had only set that down as almost certain and
64immediate which she had looked forward to as possible at some future time. In revolving Lady Catherine's expressions,
65however, she could not help feeling some uneasiness as to the possible consequence of her persisting in this
66interference. From what she had said of her resolution to prevent the marriage, it occurred to Elizabeth that she must
67meditate an application to her nephew; and how he might take a similar representation of the evils attached to a
68connection with her she dared not pronounce. She knew not the exact degree of his affection for his aunt, or his
69dependence on her judgment, but it was natural to suppose that he thought much higher of her Ladyship than she could do;
70and it was certain, that in enumerating the miseries of a marriage with one whose immediate connections were so unequal
71to his own, his aunt would address him on his weakest side. With his notions of dignity, he would probably feel that the
72arguments, which to Elizabeth had appeared weak and ridiculous, contained much good sense and solid reasoning.
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