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"Not so hasty, if you please. 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? Heaven

and earth!--of what are you thinking? Are the shades of Pemberley

to be thus polluted?"

"You can now have nothing further to say," she 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?"