"The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness, and since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequently wished to heal the breach; but for some time I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at variance.--'There, Mrs. Bennet.'--My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.
« Le désaccord subsistant entre vous et mon regretté pere m’a toujours été fort pénible, et depuis que j’ai eu l’infortune de le perdre, j’ai souvent souhaité d’y remédier. Pendant quelque temps j’ai été retenu par la crainte de manquer a sa mémoire en me réconciliant avec une personne pour laquelle, toute sa vie, il avait professé des sentiments hostiles… » – Vous voyez, Mrs.