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May 2 - May 29, 2020
Darcy’s first proposal in the Hunsford parsonage, according to the 1812 calendar, is April 9. I am afraid that I changed this. I didn’t change it arbitrarily, but in order to make sense out of the timeline for Elizabeth’s visit with the Gardiners in London. By the calendar she must have been there for three weeks or more, but yet it is called “a few days.” I wanted “a few days,” not three weeks,
The following dates apply: April 16—Darcy proposes. April 18—Darcy and Fitzwilliam go to London. April 26—Elizabeth goes to London. May 5—Elizabeth and Jane go home. May 25—The regiment leaves Hertfordshire.
she decided in a very Charlotte-like burst of common sense, to rail against him for what he had done, but it would do Jane far more good to use her unexpected influence to change his mind. After all, he could hardly continue to object to his own sister-in-law as a suitable choice for his friend.
I could not bear to be married to a man who resented and regretted me.”
I would have no objections to your visiting Longbourn on occasion.
“I would like to hear which of my words you think to use against me.” “Oh, no, Mr. Darcy, I am determined to act in self-defense only.”
I seek to use your words only to benefit my cause, not to injure yours.”
“Would I be allowed to suffer my relations, or be encouraged to embrace them?”
He had thought too much of his own feelings and not enough of hers.
“Too true, Miss Bingley: My mother is the beauty, and I am the wit.”
“My mother is not a clever woman,” she said impatiently, “but she had done nothing to you at that point. And, unlike me, she is ill equipped to defend herself against ridicule.”
How is one to know who is worth knowing and who is not if not through conversation?” “By observation.”
“By observing their conversations with others you mean.
it was certainly true he had so much rather be beckoned by Elizabeth than clutched at by Miss Bingley.
what if some of her own past words were to come to Darcy’s ears, even as his had to hers?
“I see what you say, Lizzy,” he said at last, as he sank tiredly into a chair. “It is my fault you feel you must accept him.”
Mr. Bennet, your daughters are saved! You may die as soon as you please now!”
He had few fond memories of Hertfordshire society and deplored the engagement period to come as a necessary evil.
They were dreadful. There was no other way to put it, they were entirely dreadful. Her father’s rudeness, her mother’s shallowness, her young sisters’ total lack of manners—it had all been beyond anything any sensible man could be expected to endure, much less embrace. He simply could not believe that he had voluntarily chosen to connect himself with this family.
by all means, ignore the fact that your Mr. Darcy is so very rich. It may make you feel more virtuous, and it will certainly not make him any less rich by the process.”
He had thought that modesty, reticence, hurt pride, and, at the very most, indifference were his to conquer, while all the while her more substantial objections had gone unspoken.
He had not courted the woman he loved openly, honorably, or properly, because he knew that if he proposed, she would have little choice but to accept.
She laughed and, seizing the change of subject, spent the rest of the walk entertaining them both with a lighthearted account of Mr. Collins’s proposal, the comic aspects of which she emphasized for Darcy’s benefit. He was amused but also repulsed and inwardly winced to see the similarities between it and his own proposal: the assurance of her answer, the condescending remarks about her situation.
