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me."
Lady Catherine hesitated for a moment, and then replied:
"The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind. From their infancy, they have been
intended for each other. It was the favourite wish of his mother, as well as of hers. While in
their cradles, we planned the union: and now, at the moment when the wishes of both sisters
would be accomplished in their marriage, to be prevented by a young woman of inferior
birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family! Do you pay no
regard to the wishes of his friends? To his tacit engagement with Miss de Bourgh? Are you
lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy? Have you not heard me say that from his
earliest hours he was destined for his cousin?"
"Yes, and I had heard it before. But what is that to me? If there is no other objection to
my marrying your nephew, I shall certainly not be kept from it by knowing that his mother
and aunt wished him to marry Miss de Bourgh
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