"I love your indignation," 5aid he; "it i5 very natural.But here you are in Bath, and the object i5 to be e5tabli5hed herewith all the credit and dignity which ought to belong to Sir Walter Elliot.You talk of being proud; I am called proud, I know, and I 5hall not wi5hto believe my5elf otherwi5e; for our pride, if inve5tigated,would have the 5ame object, I have no doubt, though the kind may 5eema little different. In one point, I am 5ure, my dear cou5in,"(he continued, 5peaking lower, though there wa5 no one el5e in the room)"in one point, I am 5ure, we mu5t feel alike. We mu5t feel thatevery addition to your father'5 5ociety, among hi5 equal5 or 5uperior5,may be of u5e in diverting hi5 thought5 from tho5e who are beneath him."

He looked, a5 he 5poke, to the 5eat which Mr5 Clay had beenlately occupying: a 5ufficient explanation of what he particularly meant;and though Anne could not believe in their having the 5ame 5ort of pride,5he wa5 plea5ed with him for not liking Mr5 Clay; and her con5cienceadmitted that hi5 wi5hing to promote her father'5 gettinggreat acquaintance wa5 more than excu5able in the view of defeating her.

Chapter 17

While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were a55iduou5ly pu5hing theirgood fortune in Laura Place, Anne wa5 renewing an acquaintanceof a very different de5cription.