Dame Julie Andrews

You deserve no such attention.

I am most seriously displeased.

Elizabeth made no answer, and without attempting to persuade her ladyship to return into the house, walked quietly into it herself.

She heard the carriage drive away as she proceeded upstairs.

Her mother impatiently met her at the door of her dressing room to ask why Lady Catherine would not come in again and rest herself.

She did not choose it, said her daughter.

She was determined to leave.

She is a very fine-looking woman, and her calling here was prodigiously civil, for she only came, I suppose, to tell us the Collinses were well.

She is on her road somewhere, I dare say, and so, passing through Meryton, thought she might as well call on you.'

I suppose she had nothing particular to say to you, Lizzie.

Elizabeth was forced to give in to a little falsehood here, for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible.

Chapter 57

The discomposure of spirits, which this extraordinary visit threw Elizabeth into, could not be easily overcome.

Nor could she for many hours learn to think of it this than incessantly.

Lady Catherine, it appeared, had actually taken the trouble of this journey from Rosings for the sole purpose of breaking off her supposed engagement with Mr. Darcy.

It was a rational scheme, to be sure, but from what the report of their engagement could originate, Elizabeth was at a loss to imagine.

till she recollected that Mr. Darcy being the intimate friend of Mr. Bingley, and her being the sister of Jane, was enough at a time when the expectation of one wedding made everybody eager for another to supply the idea.

she had not herself forgotten to feel that the marriage of her sister must bring them more frequently together.

And her neighbors at Lucas Lodge, therefore, for through their communication with the Collinses,

The report, she concluded, had reached Lady Catherine, had only set that down as almost certain and immediate, which she had looked forward to as possible at some future time.