Dame Julie Andrews

I must beg, therefore, to be importuned no further on the subject.

Not so hasty, if you please, said Lady Catherine.

I have by no means done.

To all the objections I have already urged, I have still another to add.

I am no stranger to the particulars of your youngest sister's infamous elopement.

I know it all, that the young man's marrying her was a patched-up business at the expense of your father and uncle.

And is such a girl to be my nephew's sister?

Is her husband, who is the son of his late father's steward, to be his brother?

Of what are you thinking?"

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

You can now have nothing further to say, Lizzie resentfully answered.

You have insulted me in every possible method.

I must beg to return to the house.

And she rose as she spoke.

Lady Catherine rose also, and they turned back.

Her ladyship was highly incensed.

You have no regard, then, for the honour and credit of my nephew.

Unfeeling, selfish girl, do you not consider that a connection with you must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody?

Lady Catherine, I have nothing further to say.

You know my sentiments well.