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Quote #10
The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this, just as the beheading and burning of my bride was a fate preferable to seeing her join the ranks of Lucifer's brigade. You are grievously to be pitied; in which opinion I am joined Lady Catherine and her daughter, to whom I have related the affair. They agree with me in apprehending that this dishonouring of one's daughter will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others; for "who," as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says, "will connect themselves with such a family?" (48.9)
For a guy who married a zombie, Mr. Collins' tone is pretty smug here. He wants the Bennets to know that Lady Catherine is totally looking down on their family because of Lydia's little escapade. The Bennets are all tarnished socially, and there's nothing they can do about it.