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Chapter 15.

The discomposure of spirits, which this extraordinary visit threw Elizabeth into, could not be easily overcome.

Nor could she, for many hours, learned to think of it less than incessantly.

Lady Catherine, it appeared, had actually taken the trouble of this journey from Rosings, for the sole purpose of breaking off her supposed engagement with Mr. Darcy.

It was a rational scheme, to be sure, but from what the report of their engagement could originate, Elizabeth was at a loss to imagine.

Till she recollected that his being the intimate friend of Bingley, and her being the sister of Jane, was enough, at a time when the expectation of one wedding, made everybody eager for another to supply the idea.

She had not herself forgotten to feel that the marriage of her sister must bring them more frequently together, and her neighbors at Lucas Lodge, therefore, through their communication

with the Collins' as the report she concluded had reached Lady Catherine, had only set that

down as almost certain and immediate,

which she had looked forward to as possible at some future time. In revolving Lady Catherine's

expressions, however, she could not help feeling some uneasiness as to the possible consequence

of her persisting in this interference. From what she had said of her resolution to prevent their marriage, it occurred to Elizabeth

that she must mediate an application to her nephew, and how he might take a similar

representation of the evils attached to a connection with her she dared not pronounce.

She knew not the exact degree of his affection for his aunt or his dependence on her judgment,

but it was natural to suppose that he thought much higher of her ladyship than she could do,

and it was certain that in enumerating the miseries of a marriage with one whose immediate

connections were so unequal to his own, his aunt would address him on his

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