Mrs. Bennet could hardly comprehend it. That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all she could believe possible.
Mrs. Bennet n’en revenait pas ; elle ne pouvait concevoir que la colere de son mari contre sa fille put etre poussée au point de refuser a celle-ci un privilege sans lequel, lui semblait-il, le mariage serait a peine valide.