"How could you begin?" said she. "I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?" "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I HAD begun."
THE PAY-OFF. All the banter, the swoony plot points, the extremely hot spectacle of a man and woman whose bodies want what their minds cannot yet understand—Austen knew, better than anyone, how after all that, the reader now needs THIS: the full and leisurely accounting of what was really going on in Darcy’s mind—or body—when he was belittling Elizabeth’s appearance, giving her the silent treatment, crashing an unlikeable aunt’s estate, and using Bingley and Jane as romantic foils and scapegoats for his own attraction to a property-less Bennet sister. Never was more revealed about the state of a lovesick man’s mind than by the words “I was in the middle before I knew that I HAD begun.” Let us all take a moment to sigh—and may you all fall in love one day EXACTLY like this.
Natalie Jenner's new book JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY comes out May 26, 2020. Find out more on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43557477?ref=p&p
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