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“Who can explain the laws of attraction that beset a person for whom one source of love and comfort is lost, and yet another arrives to replace it?”

“Is this a conspiracy to find me a wife? Are engagements infectious? When one has been announced, it needs must be followed by another?”

“I should have known you were no better than the rest of them. You are only a man, you do not have the ability to control yourself, but she," Lady Catherine nodded sagely, "she knew exactly what she was doing. Fluffing her feathers and shaking her tail for you! It was disgraceful!”

“I am not surprised. Lizzy, you have grown up without brothers, so you are perhaps unaware that, although we may manage to force a veneer of civility on young boys, they are in truth young savages, and I can attest to that as a former young boy myself." He smiled at her. "Then we send those young savages away to school with other young savages, and we pretend that what occurs at those schools is something other that uncontrolled savagery. Unfortunately, it is precisely that.”

“But I am supposed to travel to the Lakes with my aunt and uncle in June!" Lady Matlock beamed. "All the better! They can collect you at Matlock Park. It is just off the North Road, and we would be delighted if they would break their journey with us." This was beginning to feel like a kidnapping.”