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Act Two, Pt.1
Elizabeth awoke the next morning to the same thoughts and meditations which had at length closed her eyes
that she would receive an offer of marriage from Mr. Darcy, that he should have been in love with her for so many months.
Her astonishment, as she reflected on what had passed, was increased by every review of it.
It was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection.
But his pride, his abominable pride, his shameless avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane,
and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned Mr. Wickham, soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his attachment had for a moment excited.
Totally indisposed for employment, she resolved soon after breakfast to indulge herself in air and exercise.
Mr. Darcy: Miss Bennet!
Elizabeth: Mr. Darcy.
Mr. Darcy: I have been walking in the grove sometime in the hope of meeting you.
Would you do me the honor of reading that letter?
He left, and Elizabeth opened the letter.
Mr. Darcy: My dear Miss Bennet, I write without any intention of paining you, or renewing that offer, which last night was so disgusting to you.
But you have laid to my charge two offences, two offences of a very different nature, which must be answered.
Elizabeth: Answered! Impossible!
Mr. Darcy: As to the first, that I willfully detached Mr. Bingley from your sister, I can say only this:
I watched Bingley, his partiality towards your sister was beyond what I had ever witnessed in him;
your sister, I watched too, her look and manners were open, cheerful and engaging as ever, but without any symptom of real regard.
Elizabeth: Contemptible!
Mr. Darcy: If you have not been mistaken here, I must have been in an error. -- that I was desirous of believing her indifferent is certain.
Elizabeth: Certain indeed.
Mr. Darcy: But I will venture to say that my decisions are not usually influenced by my hopes. There are other causes.
--The situation of your mother's family was nothing in comparison to the total want of propriety so frequently betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and even by your father.
-- Pardon me. -- It pains me to offend you. If I have wounded your sister’s feeling, it was unknowingly done.
With respect to that other accusation, of having injured Mr. Wickham, I can only refute it by laying before you the whole of his connection with my family.
Mr. Wickham’s vicious propensities—
Elizabeth: That must be false!
Mr. Darcy: And his want of principal—
Elizabeth: That cannot be true!
Mr. Darcy: which he was careful to guard from my father, could not escape your observation of a young man so close an age to himself.
My excellent father died about five years ago; and his attachment to Mr. Wickham was to the last so steady
that he bequeathed him in his will a valuable family living.
Shortly thereafter, Mr. Wickham came to inform me that--
Mr. Wickham: Having finally resolved against going into the church, I hope I would not find it unreasonable for me to expect more immediate pecuniary advantage.
I have some intention of studying the law.
Mr. Darcy: The business was soon settled. He resigned all claim to assistance in the church, and accepted in return three thousand pounds.
Elizabeth: That is generous indeed.
Mr. Darcy: But three years later, he applied to me again.
Mr. Wickham: My circumstances--
Mr. Darcy: --He assured me, and I had no difficulty in believing it—
Mr. Wickham: --Are exceedingly bad.
I have found the law to be a most unprofitable study, and I am now absolutely resolved on being ordained.
Mr. Darcy: You will hardly blame me for refusing to comply with this entreaty. After this period, all appearance of acquaintance was dropped.
How he lived I know not. But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice.
Concerning this next circumstance, I feel no doubt of your secrecy.
About a year ago, my sister was taken from school, and an establishment set up for her in London; thither also went Mr. Wickham--
Mr. Wickham: I so recommend myself to Georgiana.
Mr. Darcy: --Whose affectionate heart retained a strong impression of his kindness to her as a child,
that she was persuaded to believe herself in love, and to consent to an elopement.
Mr. Wickham's chief object was unquestionably my sister's fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds;
but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement.
Had they not been discovered; his revenge would have been complete indeed.
Elizabeth perfectly remembered everything that has passed in her first conversation with Mr. Wickham.
She was now struck with the impropriety of such communication to a stranger.
She remembered that he had boasted of having no fear of seeing Mr. Darcy, yet he had avoided the Netherfield ball the very next week;
and as for Jane, she could not help remembering what Charlotte’s opinion had always been;
and her family, spoken of in terms of such mortifying yet merited reproach. The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly for denial.
Mr. Darcy: You may wonder why all this was not told you last night.
But I was not then master enough of myself to know what could or ought to be revealed.
I will only add, God bless you. FITZWILLIAM DARCY.
Elizabeth: How despicably I have acted! I, who have prided myself on my discernment!
-- Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. Till this moment, I have never known myself.
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