Act 3 Pgs. 87-91 Flashcards
Hilda
The lady Catherine de Bourgh
Lady Catherine? Good afternoon, your ladyship. This is a pleasant surprise-
Lady Catherine
This lady, I suppose, is your mother?
May I present my mother, mrs. Bennet. Lady Catherine de Bourgh, mama.
Lady Catherine
Ends in…and there cook is no doubt more efficient than the one you are likely to have in a place with such a very small park.
But of course, lady Catherine-
Mrs Bennet
If you need me I’ll be in the library-im reading a book.
That piece is quite genuine-lady Catherine. Is your chair comfortable?
Lady Catherine
Sit here where I can see you plainly. You know why I am here?
No, indeed I dont know what I have done to deserve this honor.
Lady Catherine
Has not your conscience told you?
My conscience?
Lady Catherine
(Blah blah blah) I have come post haste from rosings to let you know my exact sentiments.
What a long way to come for such a purpose, lady Catherine. Especially as I know nothing of such a rumor.
Lady Catherine
Will you swear there is no foundation for it?
No, I do not pretend to be as celebrated for frankness as your ladyship. So there are certain questions I may not choose to answer - this is one of them.
Lady Catherine
How-how dare you? I insist on knowing! Has my nephew made you an offer of marriage?
But your ladyship has already declared that to be Impossible.
Lady Catherine
It certainly should be! But your arts may have been entangled him into forgetting what he owes to his family.
Then surely I should be the last to admit it.
Lady Catherine
Miss bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed- I am the nearest relative he has and entitled to know his dearest conserns
Then question him you are surely not entitled to know mine.
Lady Catherine
This marriage which you have the effrontery to aspire, will never take place. Never! Now what have you to say?
If there were no other objection to my marriage with mr.darcy - your commands could carry little weight.
Lady Catherine
Very well. If you persist - but dont except to be recieved by his family or his friends-
I must confess to your ladyship that this will not give me a moment’s concern.
Lady Catherine
Miss bennet I am ashamed of you. Is this your gratitude for my hospitality?
Gratitude! But, lady Catherine I regard hospitality as a mutual grace, and by no means consider myself an object for charity.
Lady Catherine
Understand my girl, I came here determined- I am not used to submitting to any persons whims, nor brooking disappointments
That is unfortunate. it is rather late in life for your ladyship to be recieving your first taste of it-
Lady Catherine
Be silent . the idea of you wanting to marry out of your own sphere!
Oh I should not consider it so. Mr. Darcy is a gentleman - I am the daughter of one.
Lady Catherine
And pray, what was your mother? A lady? The daughter of a shop keeper, with a brother -an attorney!! You see, I am not deceived by your airs and graces.
Elizabeth
And, you, lady Catherine, the daughter of a peer! It’s strange how little birth seems to affect questions of taste- or- gentleness of heart.
Lady Catherine
As if you could possibly know anything about such things. Answer me once and for all ARE YOU ENGAGED TO MY NEPHEW!
I must ask you to speak in a lower key. My sister is asleep out there. No I am not engaged to your to him.
Lady Catherine
And will you promise me you never will be?
I will not.
Lady Catherine
Miss bennet, I am shocked! Then I refuse to leave until you have given me that promise
I trust your ladyship will have a pleasant journey back to Rosings. Hilda her ladyship’s coach, of you please.
Mrs. Bennet
Oh why did her ladyship leave so soon? I had hoped to have a nice talk with her about the collinses-
She did not wish to remain longer, mama.
Mrs. Bennet
She is a very fine looking woman, my love - and her calling here was prodigiously civil- she only came, I suppose, to tell us that the Collinses were well? On her way somewhere I daresay? Paying through meryton - thought she might as well call on you? I suppose she had nothing particular to say, lizzie?
No, mama - nothing at all.