Elton; the whole system of whose treatment of her, by the by, has ever filled me with indignation and hatred. I must not quarrel with a spirit of forbearance which has been so richly extended towards myself; but, otherwise, I should loudly protest against the share of it which that woman has known.⁠—‘Jane,’ indeed!⁠—You will observe that I have not yet indulged myself in calling her by that name, even to you. Think, then, what I must have endured in hearing it bandied between the Eltons with all the vulgarity of needless repetition, and all the insolence of imaginary superiority. Have patience with me, I shall soon have done.⁠—She closed with this offer, resolving to break with me entirely, and wrote the next day to tell me that we never were to meet again.⁠— She felt the engagement to be a source of repentance and misery to each: she dissolved it