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Act One, Pt.10
This entertainment of dining at Rosings was repeated about twice a week,
and every such entertainment was the counterpart of the first.
Elizabeth: There was dinner, followed by whist, followed by the pronouncements of Lady Catherine, followed by—
Mr. Collins: Miss Elizabeth, you cannot imagine who has just arrived at Rosings.
Elizabeth: My wretched luck.
Lady Catherine: Miss Bennet, pray let me introduce you to Colonel Fitzwilliam.
Elizabeth: I’m pleased to make your acquaintance, sir.
Colonel Fitzwilliam: I’m delighted to make yours, Miss Bennet.
Lady Catherine: And my nephew, Mr. Darcy. Miss Bennet, Mr. Darcy.
Elizabeth: Mr. Darcy and I are already acquainted.
Lady Catherine: Indeed.
Mr. Darcy: I too am delighted to see you again, Miss Bennet.
Elizabeth: How very suddenly you all quitted Netherfield last November, Mr. Darcy!
It must have been an agreeable surprise to Mr. Bingley to see you all after him so soon;
for, if I recollect rightly, he went but the day before.
He and his sister were well, I hope, when you left London.
Mr. Darcy: Perfectly so -- I thank you.
Elizabeth: I think I have understood that Mr. Bingley has not much idea of ever returning to Netherfield again?
Mr. Darcy: I have never heard him say so; but it is probable that he may spend very little of his time there in future.
He is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing.
Elizabeth: Well, it would perhaps be better for the neighborhood that he should give up the place entirely,
(for then) we might possibly get a settled family there.
But perhaps Mr. Bingley did not take the house so much for the convenience of the neighborhood as for his own,
(and) we must expect him to keep or quit it on the same principle.
Mr. Darcy: I believe that—
Lady Catherine: What are you speaking of, Darcy?
Mr. Darcy: We were speaking of Hertfordshire, Ma’am.
Colonel Fitzwilliam: Miss Bennet, Mrs. Collins tells us that you play and sing beautifully. I hope you will indulge us in a song?
Elizabeth: Gladly, Colonel. I only hope my poor fingers will not prove Mrs. Collins praise unworthy.
Lady Catherine: Ah, music. It is of all things my delight.
There are few people in England, I suppose,
that have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste.
If I had ever learnt, I would have been a great proficient.
And Anne would have performed delightfully, had her health allowed her to apply.
How does Georgiana get on, Darcy?
Mr. Darcy: Very well. I have never heard her equal for her age.
Lady Catherine: Pray tell her from me, that she can never expect to excel, unless she practices.
I have told Miss Bennet on several occasions, that she will never play really well, unless she practices more…
Darcy, where are you going, Darcy?
Elizabeth: You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming to hear me play?
But I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
Mr. Darcy: I shall not say that you are mistaken, because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you;
and I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know,
that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.
Elizabeth: Colonel, your cousin will give you a very pretty notion of me, (and) he teaches you not to believe a word I say.
Indeed, it is very ungenerous in you, Mr. Darcy -- and, give me leave to say, very impolitic too
-- for it is provoking me to retaliate, and such things may come out, as will shock your relations to hear.
Mr. Darcy: I am not afraid of you.
Colonel Fitzwilliam: let me hear what you have to accuse him of, I should like to know how he behaves among strangers.
Elizabeth: You shall hear then -- but prepare yourself for something very dreadful.
The first time of my ever seeing him in Hertfordshire was at a ball -- and at this ball, what do you think he did?
He danced only four dances! I am sorry to pain you -- but so it was.
He danced only four dances, though gentlemen were scarce;
and, to my certain knowledge, more than one young lady was sitting down in want of a partner.
Mr. Darcy, you cannot deny the fact.
Mr. Darcy: I had not at that time the honor of knowing any lady in the assembly beyond my own party.
Elizabeth: True; and nobody can ever be introduced in a ball room.
Well, Colonel Fitzwilliam, what do I play next? My fingers wait your orders.
Mr. Darcy: I should have judged better, perhaps, had I sought an introduction,
but I am ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers.
Elizabeth: Colonel, shall we ask your cousin the reason of this?
Shall we ask him why a man of sense and education should be ill qualified to recommend himself to strangers?
Colonel Fitzwilliam: I can answer your question without applying to him.
It is because he will not give himself the trouble.
Mr. Darcy: I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.
I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.
Elizabeth: My fingers do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many womens do.
They do not have the same force, and do not produce the same expression.
But I have always supposed that to be my own fault -- because I would not practice.
It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other womens of superior execution.
Mr. Darcy: You are perfectly right. You have employed your time much better.
No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you, can think anything wanting.
Lady Catherine: Fitzwilliam, Darcy, what are you speaking of now?
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