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Lady Catherine: "You can be at no loss to understand the reason for my journey, Miss Bennet?"
Elizabeth: "Indeed you are mistaken, Madam. I am quite unable to account for the honour of seeing you here."
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Lady Catherine: "I instantly resolved on setting off for this place to make my sentiments known to you."
Elizabeth: "If you believed it to be impossible I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far, what would your
ladyship propose by it?"
Lady Catherine: "At once, to insist upon having such a report universally contradicted."
Elizabeth: "Your coming to Longbourne to see me will be taken as a confirmation of it, if indeed such a
report exists."
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Lady Catherine: "This is not to be borne, Miss Bennet. I insist on being satisfied, has my nephew made you
an offer of marriage?"
Elizabeth: "Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible."
Lady Catherine: "It ought to be so."
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Lady Catherine: "You may have drawn him in."
Elizabeth: "If I had, I should be the last person to confess it."
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Lady Catherine: "I am almost the nearest relation he has, and I am entitled to know all
his nearest concerns."
Elizabeth: "But you are not entitled to know mine, nor will such behaviour as this induce
me to be explicit."
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Lady Catherine: "Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter, now what have you to say?"
Elizabeth: "Only this, that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he'll
make an offer to me."
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Lady Catherine: "Your name would never even be mentioned by any of us."
Elizabeth: "These would be heavy misfortunes indeed."
Lady Catherine: "Obstinate, headstrong girl, I'm ashamed of you."
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Lady Catherine: "I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment."
Elizabeth: "That will make your ladyship's situation at present more pitiable but it will
have no effect on me."
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Lady Catherine: "If you were sensible of your own good you would not wish to quit the
sphere in which you have been brought up."
Elizabeth: "Lady Catherine, in marrying your nephew I should not consider myself as
quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman, I am a gentleman's daughter, so far we are
equal."
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Elizabeth: "Whatever my connections may be, if your nephew does not object to them
they can be nothing to you."
Lady Catherine: "Tell me once and for all, are you engaged to him?"
Elizabeth: "I am not."
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Lady Catherine: "You are determined to ruin him and make him the contempt of the world."
Elizabeth: "I am only resolved to act in a manner which will constitute my own
happiness without reference to you or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."
