usin,why is not he to make another choice?And if I am that choice,why may not I accept him?”

“Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it. Yes, Miss Bennet, interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you wilfully act against the inclinations o will be censured,slighted,and despised,by everyone connected wit alliance will be a disgrace;your name will never even be mentioned by any of us.”

“These are heavy misfortunes,”replied Elizabeth.“But the wife of Mr.Darcy must have such extraordinary sources 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 last spring?Is nothing due to me on that score?Let us si are to understand,Miss Bennet, that I came here with the determined resolution of carrying my purpose;nor will I be dissuaded from it.I have not been used to submit to any person' not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.”

“That will make your ladyship's situation at present more pitiable;but it will have no effect on me.”

“I will not b me i daughter and my nephew are formed for eac are descended,on the maternal side,from the same noble line;and,on the father's,from respectable,honourable,and ancient—though untitled— fortune on both sides i are destined for each other by the voice of every member of their respective houses;and what is to divide them?The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family,connections,o this to be endured!But it must not,shall not be.If you were sensible of your own good,you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up.”

“In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting tha is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter;so far we are equal.”

“ are a gentleman' who was your mother? Who are your uncles and aunts?Do not imagine m
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