“I will not be interrupted. Hear me in silence. My daughter and my nephew are for each other.
“True. You are a gentleman’s daughter. But who was your mother.”
“Tell me once for all, are you engaged to him?” and will you promise me, never to enter into suchan engagement?”
“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.”
“Whatever if your nephew does not object to them, they can be nothing to you.”
“I will make no promise that
“My dear Lizzy, are you really engaged with Darcy?”
“This is a wretched beginning indeed! I speak nothing but the truth. He still loves me, and we are engaged.”
“Oh, Lizzy! I know how much you dislike him.”
“You know I did not always love him so well as I do now.”
“How did you start feeling this?”
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
"My beauty you had early with stood, and as for my manners. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?”
“When you had once made a beginning; but what couldset you off in the first place?”
“For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”
There—I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it. I begin to think it perfectly reasonable. but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”