“She has the reputation of being remarkably sensible and clever; but I rather believe she derives part of her abilities from her rank and fortune, part from her authoritative manner, and the rest from the pride of her nephew, who chuses that every one connected with him should have an understanding of the first class.”
Wickham to Elizabeth, about Lady Catherine
Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 1, Ch. 16
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