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"Ay, there she comes," continued Mrs. Bennet, "looking as

unconcerned as may be, and caring no more for us than if we were

at York, provided she can have her own way. But I tell you what,

Miss Lizzy, if you take it into your head to go on refusing every

offer of marriage in this way, you will never get a husband at

all--and I am sure I do not know who is to maintain you when your

father is dead. I shall not be able to keep you--and so I warn

you. I have done with you from this very day. I told you in the

library, you know, that I should never speak to you again, and

you will find me as good as my word. I have no pleasure in

talking to undutiful children. Not that I have much pleasure,

indeed, in talking to anybody. People who suffer as I do from

nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do

not complain are never pitied."