Pride and Prejudice, chapters 54-57

Oscar Wilde famously observed that all women become their mothers, and we find the first terrifying hint of this in Lizzy as she reflects on Darcy's reappearance at Longbourn, where he comported himself with an air that might accurately be called "funereal" if what we're referring to is the actual corpse.  "If he no longer cares for me, why silent?" she asks herself  "Teasing, teasing man!  I will think no more about him."  Which has all the ringing finality of one of Mrs. Bennet's many...