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The recollection of what I\r\nthen said, of my conduct, my manners, my expressions during the whole of\r\nit, is now, and has been many months, inexpressibly painful to me. Your\r\nreproof, so well applied, I shall never forget: ‘Had you behaved in a\r\nmore gentlemanlike manner.’ Those were your words. You know not, you can\r\nscarcely conceive, how they have tortured me; though it was some time, I\r\nconfess, before I was reasonable enough to allow their justice.”\r\n\r\n“I was certainly very far from expecting them to make so strong an\r\nimpression. I had not the smallest idea of their being ever felt in such\r\na way.”\r\n\r\n“I can easily believe it. You thought me then devoid of every proper\r\nfeeling, I am sure you did. The turn of your countenance I shall never\r\nforget, as you said that I could not have addressed you in any possible\r\nway that would induce you to accept me.”\r\n\r\n“Oh, do not repeat what I then said. These recollections will not do at\r\nall. I assure you that I have long been most heartily ashamed of it.”\r\n\r\nDarcy mentioned his letter. “Did it,” said he,--“did it _soon_ make you\r\nthink better of me? Did you, on reading it, give any credit to its\r\ncontents?”\r\n\r\nShe explained what its effects on her had been, and how gradually all\r\nher former prejudices had been removed.\r\n\r\n“I knew,” said he, “that what I wrote must give you pain, but it was\r\nnecessary. I hope you have destroyed the letter. There was one part,\r\nespecially the opening of it, which I should dread your having the power\r\nof reading again. I can remember some expressions which might justly\r\nmake you hate me.”\r\n\r\n“The letter shall certainly be burnt, if you believe it essential to the\r\npreservation of my regard; but, though we have both reason to think my\r\nopinions not entirely unalterable, they are not, I hope, quite so easily\r\nchanged as that implies.”\r\n\r\n“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly\r\ncalm and cool; but I am since convinced that it was written in a\r\ndreadful bitterness of spirit.”\r\n\r\n“The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so. The\r\nadieu is charity itself. But think no more of the letter. The feelings\r\nof the person who wrote and the person who received it are now so widely\r\ndifferent from what they were then, that every unpleasant circumstance\r\nattending it ought to be forgotten. You must learn some of my\r\nphilosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you\r\npleasure.”\r\n\r\n“I cannot give you credit for any philosophy of the kind. _Your_\r\nretrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment\r\narising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of\r\nignorance. But with _me_, it is not so. Painful recollections will\r\nintrude, which cannot, which ought not to be repelled. I have been a\r\nselfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a\r\nchild I was taught what was _right_, but I was not taught to correct my\r\ntemper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride\r\nand conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only _child_),\r\nI was spoiled by my parents, who, though good themselves, (my father\r\nparticularly, all that was benevolent and amiable,) allowed, encouraged,\r\nalmost taught me to be selfish and overbearing, to care for none beyond\r\nmy own family circle, to think meanly of all the rest of the world, to\r\n_wish_ at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with\r\nmy own. Such I was, from eight to eight-and-twenty; and such I might\r\nstill have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not\r\nowe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most\r\nadvantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a\r\ndoubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my\r\npretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”\r\n\r\n“Had you then persuaded yourself that I should?”\r\n\r\n“Indeed I had. What will you think of my vanity? I believed you to be\r\nwishing, expecting my addresses.”\r\n\r\n“My manners must have been in fault, but not intentionally, I assure\r\nyou. I never meant to deceive you, but my spirits might often lead me\r\nwrong. How you must have hated me after _that_ evening!”\r\n\r\n“Hate you! I was angry, perhaps, at first, but my anger soon began to\r\ntake a proper direction.”\r\n\r\n“I am almost afraid of asking what you thought of me when we met at\r\nPemberley. You blamed me for coming?”\r\n\r\n“No, indeed, I felt nothing but surprise.”\r\n\r\n“Your surprise could not be greater than _mine_ in being noticed by you.\r\nMy conscience told me that I deserved no extraordinary politeness, and I\r\nconfess that I did not expect to receive _more_ than my due.”\r\n\r\n“My object _then_,” replied Darcy, “was to show you, by every civility\r\nin my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped\r\nto obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you\r\nsee that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes\r\nintroduced themselves, I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half\r\nan hour after I had seen you.”\r\n\r\nHe then told her of Georgiana’s delight in her acquaintance, and of her\r\ndisappointment at its sudden interruption; which naturally leading to\r\nthe cause of that interruption, she soon learnt that his resolution of\r\nfollowing her from Derbyshire in quest of her sister had been formed\r\nbefore he quitted the inn, and that his gravity and thoughtfulness there\r\nhad arisen from no other struggles than what such a purpose must\r\ncomprehend.\r\n\r\nShe expressed her gratitude again, but it was too painful a subject to\r\neach to be dwelt on farther.\r\n\r\nAfter walking several miles in a leisurely manner, and too busy to know\r\nanything about it, they found at last, on examining their watches, that\r\nit was time to be at home.\r\n\r\n“What could have become of Mr. Bingley and Jane?” was a wonder which\r\nintroduced the discussion of _their_ affairs. Darcy was delighted with\r\ntheir engagement; his friend had given him the earliest information of\r\nit.\r\n\r\n“I must ask whether you were surprised?” said Elizabeth.\r\n\r\n“Not at all. When I went away, I felt that it would soon happen.”\r\n\r\n“That is to say, you had given your permission. I guessed as much.” And\r\nthough he exclaimed at the term, she found that it had been pretty much\r\nthe case.\r\n\r\n“On the evening before my going to London,” said he, “I made a\r\nconfession to him, which I believe I ought to have made long ago. I told\r\nhim of all that had occurred to make my former interference in his\r\naffairs absurd and impertinent. His surprise was great. He had never had\r\nthe slightest suspicion. I told him, moreover, that I believed myself\r\nmistaken in supposing, as I had done, that your sister was indifferent\r\nto him; and as I could easily perceive that his attachment to her was\r\nunabated, I felt no doubt of their happiness together.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth could not help smiling at his easy manner of directing his\r\nfriend.\r\n\r\n“Did you speak from your own observation,” said she, “when you told him\r\nthat my sister loved him, or merely from my information last spring?”\r\n\r\n“From the former. I had narrowly observed her, during the two visits\r\nwhich I had lately made her here; and I was convinced of her affection.”\r\n\r\n“And your assurance of it, I suppose, carried immediate conviction to\r\nhim.”\r\n\r\n“It did. Bingley is most unaffectedly modest. His diffidence had\r\nprevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but\r\nhis reliance on mine made everything easy."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJRRD3TNE5A6AKAVXSRFT9RC","peer_label":"pride-and-prejudice","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJRRC2C7K6XERRJES8143XGV","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJRREZKG263C7SQSDV3TZ5MX","peer_label":"elizabeth bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF2V5XWPGQ8NCVBZAMV1A","peer_label":"darcy","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF9M2538MHHJ98FNAFJA7","peer_label":"georgiana darcy","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREY5SSJCQ67QYG0XTG9A8","peer_label":"mr bingley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRF8XS6TS1MYYYNH9DJHZE","peer_label":"derbyshire","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"place","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRREZGM87R12EADFF6YZZG3","peer_label":"jane bennet","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"person","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFNHZDK5FV8ZCBHA5FNGH","peer_label":"darcys past behavior","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"character_trait","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFNQWQXJF2DCS5T5N1X46","peer_label":"pemberley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"place","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFNKJ8B4H3DF42BHVS7FA","peer_label":"darcys letter","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"document","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFNRTW5GT53PCR3ZF4VSS","peer_label":"darcys parents","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"family_group","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFNM0A3FYE5QR4EB2ATAB","peer_label":"elizabeths prejudices","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"concept","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFNQ1XNZZTDQH5HEYA42Y","peer_label":"darcys childhood","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"life_period","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFPPFNBTBDS4YC4TDV9KT","peer_label":"bingley and janes engagement","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"event","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFQ7P0WZK7FG7X0VVGBQ0","peer_label":"darcys judgment","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"concept","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFPM3D857ZGZHDJNEPDND","peer_label":"darcys former interference","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"action","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFP4PVBZ2JGXT03X5WFSV","peer_label":"elizabeth bennets acquaintance","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"relationship","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}},{"peer":"01KJRRFQMZ9VM4T31D048CJS8J","peer_label":"darcys confession to bingley","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"event","extracted_at":"2026-03-03T02:30:01.967Z"}}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-03-03T02:29:01.393Z","ts":"2026-03-03T02:30:03.506Z","edited_by":{"method":"system","user_id":"01KJ60XQBHJ0GBGTP9X8HXAPPM"}}