{"id":"01KJRRE0PHNBYWJ2BHVFAQ50WE","cid":"bafkreicqakwlozpmzh63zt4rc5zlvvwk4syrilyqt7dsrrrxy57kpk4s5e","type":"text_chunk","properties":{"char_end":377749,"char_start":370125,"chunk_index":52,"chunk_total":108,"estimated_tokens":1906,"label":"that Bingley was the person meant. It was all conj","source_file_key":"pride-and-prejudice","text":"that Bingley was the person meant. It was all conjecture.”\r\n\r\n“What is it you mean?”\r\n\r\n“It is a circumstance which Darcy of course could not wish to be\r\ngenerally known, because if it were to get round to the lady’s family it\r\nwould be an unpleasant thing.”\r\n\r\n“You may depend upon my not mentioning it.”\r\n\r\n“And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to be\r\nBingley. What he told me was merely this: that he congratulated himself\r\non having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most\r\nimprudent marriage, but without mentioning names or any other\r\nparticulars; and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him\r\nthe kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from\r\nknowing them to have been together the whole of last summer.”\r\n\r\n“Did Mr. Darcy give you his reasons for this interference?”\r\n\r\n“I understood that there were some very strong objections against the\r\nlady.”\r\n\r\n“And what arts did he use to separate them?”\r\n\r\n“He did not talk to me of his own arts,” said Fitzwilliam, smiling. “He\r\nonly told me what I have now told you.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth made no answer, and walked on, her heart swelling with\r\nindignation. After watching her a little, Fitzwilliam asked her why she\r\nwas so thoughtful.\r\n\r\n“I am thinking of what you have been telling me,” said she. “Your\r\ncousin’s conduct does not suit my feelings. Why was he to be the\r\njudge?”\r\n\r\n“You are rather disposed to call his interference officious?”\r\n\r\n“I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide on the propriety of his\r\nfriend’s inclination; or why, upon his own judgment alone, he was to\r\ndetermine and direct in what manner that friend was to be happy. But,”\r\nshe continued, recollecting herself, “as we know none of the\r\nparticulars, it is not fair to condemn him. It is not to be supposed\r\nthat there was much affection in the case.”\r\n\r\n“That is not an unnatural surmise,” said Fitzwilliam; “but it is\r\nlessening the honour of my cousin’s triumph very sadly.”\r\n\r\nThis was spoken jestingly, but it appeared to her so just a picture of\r\nMr. Darcy, that she would not trust herself with an answer; and,\r\ntherefore, abruptly changing the conversation, talked on indifferent\r\nmatters till they reached the Parsonage. There, shut into her own room,\r\nas soon as their visitor left them, she could think without interruption\r\nof all that she had heard. It was not to be supposed that any other\r\npeople could be meant than those with whom she was connected. There\r\ncould not exist in the world _two_ men over whom Mr. Darcy could have\r\nsuch boundless influence. That he had been concerned in the measures\r\ntaken to separate Mr. Bingley and Jane, she had never doubted; but she\r\nhad always attributed to Miss Bingley the principal design and\r\narrangement of them. If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him,\r\n_he_ was the cause--his pride and caprice were the cause--of all that\r\nJane had suffered, and still continued to suffer. He had ruined for a\r\nwhile every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart\r\nin the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have\r\ninflicted.\r\n\r\n“There were some very strong objections against the lady,” were Colonel\r\nFitzwilliam’s words; and these strong objections probably were, her\r\nhaving one uncle who was a country attorney, and another who was in\r\nbusiness in London.\r\n\r\n“To Jane herself,” she exclaimed, “there could be no possibility of\r\nobjection,--all loveliness and goodness as she is! Her understanding\r\nexcellent, her mind improved, and her manners captivating. Neither could\r\nanything be urged against my father, who, though with some\r\npeculiarities, has abilities which Mr. Darcy himself need not disdain,\r\nand respectability which he will probably never reach.” When she thought\r\nof her mother, indeed, her confidence gave way a little; but she would\r\nnot allow that any objections _there_ had material weight with Mr.\r\nDarcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would receive a deeper wound from\r\nthe want of importance in his friend’s connections than from their want\r\nof sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly\r\ngoverned by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of\r\nretaining Mr. Bingley for his sister.\r\n\r\nThe agitation and tears which the subject occasioned brought on a\r\nheadache; and it grew so much worse towards the evening that, added to\r\nher unwillingness to see Mr. Darcy, it determined her not to attend her\r\ncousins to Rosings, where they were engaged to drink tea. Mrs. Collins,\r\nseeing that she was really unwell, did not press her to go, and as much\r\nas possible prevented her husband from pressing her; but Mr. Collins\r\ncould not conceal his apprehension of Lady Catherine’s being rather\r\ndispleased by her staying at home.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Illustration]\r\n\r\nWhen they were gone, Elizabeth, as if intending to exasperate herself as\r\nmuch as possible against Mr. Darcy, chose for her employment the\r\nexamination of all the letters which Jane had written to her since her\r\nbeing in Kent. They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any\r\nrevival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering.\r\nBut in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that\r\ncheerfulness which had been used to characterize her style, and which,\r\nproceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself, and kindly\r\ndisposed towards everyone, had been scarcely ever clouded. Elizabeth\r\nnoticed every sentence conveying the idea of uneasiness, with an\r\nattention which it had hardly received on the first perusal. Mr. Darcy’s\r\nshameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict gave her a\r\nkeener sense of her sister’s sufferings. It was some consolation to\r\nthink that his visit to Rosings was to end on the day after the next,\r\nand a still greater that in less than a fortnight she should herself be\r\nwith Jane again, and enabled to contribute to the recovery of her\r\nspirits, by all that affection could do.\r\n\r\nShe could not think of Darcy’s leaving Kent without remembering that his\r\ncousin was to go with him; but Colonel Fitzwilliam had made it clear\r\nthat he had no intentions at all, and, agreeable as he was, she did not\r\nmean to be unhappy about him.\r\n\r\nWhile settling this point, she was suddenly roused by the sound of the\r\ndoor-bell; and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its\r\nbeing Colonel Fitzwilliam himself, who had once before called late in\r\nthe evening, and might now come to inquire particularly after her. But\r\nthis idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently\r\naffected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr. Darcy walk into the\r\nroom. In a hurried manner he immediately began an inquiry after her\r\nhealth, imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better.\r\nShe answered him with cold civility. He sat down for a few moments, and\r\nthen getting up walked about the room. Elizabeth was surprised, but\r\nsaid not a word. After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her\r\nin an agitated manner, and thus began:--\r\n\r\n“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be\r\nrepressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love\r\nyou.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth’s astonishment was beyond expression. She stared, coloured,\r\ndoubted, and was silent. This he considered sufficient encouragement,\r\nand the avowal of all that he felt and had long felt for her immediately\r\nfollowed. He spoke well; but there were feelings besides those of the\r\nheart to be detailed, and he was not more eloquent on the subject of\r\ntenderness than of pride."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJRRD3TNE5A6AKAVXSRFT9RC","peer_label":"pride-and-prejudice","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJRRC2C7K6XERRJES8143XGV","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJRRF7YPKAMRSS5AR5RC8DQN","peer_label":"colonel fitzwilliam","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF2V5XWPGQ8NCVBZAMV1A","peer_label":"darcy","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZGM87R12EADFF6YZZG3","peer_label":"jane bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZKG263C7SQSDV3TZ5MX","peer_label":"elizabeth bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF2WSZTKE2V2YC4YMG4M4","peer_label":"bingley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF06V9ABE1JZWJHE56BCY","peer_label":"miss bingley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREY6ZWGAT4FYVDEM6VE2E","peer_label":"mr collins","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFG0K5SREGAFMDG85V7D7","peer_label":"mrs collins","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREY7G184NZ401P9V4JV87","peer_label":"lady catherine de bourgh","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF9S39MW0G97C1R88KVJM","peer_label":"rosings","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"place","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFD19WJWJEDTWJS731HG5","peer_label":"kent","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"place","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFT1Q02BPTFVJGCCX2N0W","peer_label":"imprudent marriage","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"concept","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFTPHPS1KB8J0WQRH95BK","peer_label":"janes country attorney uncle","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFTKKC0SBX1K8K71RBFK0","peer_label":"objections against jane bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"concept","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFTKCS8NN9DJ2FQNZEHBX","peer_label":"elizabeths mother","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFTZ3417X18MK10KMK8XY","peer_label":"elizabeths father","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFV7X7VS28F0CQYRNB31G","peer_label":"darcys pride","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"concept","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFVX0A3SB9NVFBYYSXTHW","peer_label":"parsonage","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"place","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFVWZAKB03KAGARDBSF1D","peer_label":"janes letters to elizabeth","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"artifact","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFV65K5NYYZ8G1KN7W4A4","peer_label":"janes london businessman uncle","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFW4RWEYJM6WD3BRX13WE","peer_label":"headache","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"entity","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFWC1H07YRW8PX848WT28","peer_label":"darcys proposal to elizabeth","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"event","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFVWTF42NZNTYZD7QKHE0","peer_label":"chapter xxxiv","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"document_structure","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:04.948Z"}}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:01.265Z","ts":"2026-03-03T02:30:06.149Z","edited_by":{"method":"system","user_id":"01KJ60XQBHJ0GBGTP9X8HXAPPM"}}