{"id":"01KJRRE3KZKMCPJ0BF15SWDPPT","cid":"bafkreickbwxulhtj4skb32ncx6p4i6luegzvrnhazhufg5rr5z5tmfbgji","type":"text_chunk","properties":{"char_end":727015,"char_start":719118,"chunk_index":101,"chunk_total":108,"estimated_tokens":1975,"label":"sure it will be too much for Kitty. Won’t it, Kitt","source_file_key":"pride-and-prejudice","text":"sure it will be too much for Kitty. Won’t it, Kitty?”\r\n\r\nKitty owned that she had rather stay at home. Darcy professed a great\r\ncuriosity to see the view from the Mount, and Elizabeth silently\r\nconsented. As she went upstairs to get ready, Mrs. Bennet followed her,\r\nsaying,--\r\n\r\n“I am quite sorry, Lizzy, that you should be forced to have that\r\ndisagreeable man all to yourself; but I hope you will not mind it. It is\r\nall for Jane’s sake, you know; and there is no occasion for talking to\r\nhim except just now and then; so do not put yourself to inconvenience.”\r\n\r\nDuring their walk, it was resolved that Mr. Bennet’s consent should be\r\nasked in the course of the evening: Elizabeth reserved to herself the\r\napplication for her mother’s. She could not determine how her mother\r\nwould take it; sometimes doubting whether all his wealth and grandeur\r\nwould be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man; but whether she\r\nwere violently set against the match, or violently delighted with it, it\r\nwas certain that her manner would be equally ill adapted to do credit to\r\nher sense; and she could no more bear that Mr. Darcy should hear the\r\nfirst raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her\r\ndisapprobation.\r\n\r\nIn the evening, soon after Mr. Bennet withdrew to the library, she saw\r\nMr. Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on seeing it was\r\nextreme. She did not fear her father’s opposition, but he was going to\r\nbe made unhappy, and that it should be through her means; that _she_,\r\nhis favourite child, should be distressing him by her choice, should be\r\nfilling him with fears and regrets in disposing of her, was a wretched\r\nreflection, and she sat in misery till Mr. Darcy appeared again, when,\r\nlooking at him, she was a little relieved by his smile. In a few minutes\r\nhe approached the table where she was sitting with Kitty; and, while\r\npretending to admire her work, said in a whisper, “Go to your father; he\r\nwants you in the library.” She was gone directly.\r\n\r\nHer father was walking about the room, looking grave and anxious.\r\n“Lizzy,” said he, “what are you doing? Are you out of your senses to be\r\naccepting this man? Have not you always hated him?”\r\n\r\nHow earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more\r\nreasonable, her expressions more moderate! It would have spared her from\r\nexplanations and professions which it was exceedingly awkward to give;\r\nbut they were now necessary, and she assured him, with some confusion,\r\nof her attachment to Mr. Darcy.\r\n\r\n“Or, in other words, you are determined to have him. He is rich, to be\r\nsure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane.\r\nBut will they make you happy?”\r\n\r\n“Have you any other objection,” said Elizabeth, “than your belief of my\r\nindifference?”\r\n\r\n“None at all. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but\r\nthis would be nothing if you really liked him.”\r\n\r\n“I do, I do like him,” she replied, with tears in her eyes; “I love him.\r\nIndeed he has no improper pride. He is perfectly amiable. You do not\r\nknow what he really is; then pray do not pain me by speaking of him in\r\nsuch terms.”\r\n\r\n“Lizzy,” said her father, “I have given him my consent. He is the kind\r\nof man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse anything, which he\r\ncondescended to ask. I now give it to _you_, if you are resolved on\r\nhaving him. But let me advise you to think better of it. I know your\r\ndisposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor\r\nrespectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband, unless you looked\r\nup to him as a superior. Your lively talents would place you in the\r\ngreatest danger in an unequal marriage. You could scarcely escape\r\ndiscredit and misery. My child, let me not have the grief of seeing\r\n_you_ unable to respect your partner in life. You know not what you are\r\nabout.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply;\r\nand, at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the\r\nobject of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her\r\nestimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that\r\nhis affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many\r\nmonths’ suspense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities,\r\nshe did conquer her father’s incredulity, and reconcile him to the\r\nmatch.\r\n\r\n“Well, my dear,” said he, when she ceased speaking, “I have no more to\r\nsay. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with\r\nyou, my Lizzy, to anyone less worthy.”\r\n\r\nTo complete the favourable impression, she then told him what Mr. Darcy\r\nhad voluntarily done for Lydia. He heard her with astonishment.\r\n\r\n“This is an evening of wonders, indeed! And so, Darcy did everything;\r\nmade up the match, gave the money, paid the fellow’s debts, and got him\r\nhis commission! So much the better. It will save me a world of trouble\r\nand economy. Had it been your uncle’s doing, I must and _would_ have\r\npaid him; but these violent young lovers carry everything their own\r\nway. I shall offer to pay him to-morrow, he will rant and storm about\r\nhis love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.”\r\n\r\nHe then recollected her embarrassment a few days before on his reading\r\nMr. Collins’s letter; and after laughing at her some time, allowed her\r\nat last to go, saying, as she quitted the room, “If any young men come\r\nfor Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.”\r\n\r\nElizabeth’s mind was now relieved from a very heavy weight; and, after\r\nhalf an hour’s quiet reflection in her own room, she was able to join\r\nthe others with tolerable composure. Everything was too recent for\r\ngaiety, but the evening passed tranquilly away; there was no longer\r\nanything material to be dreaded, and the comfort of ease and familiarity\r\nwould come in time.\r\n\r\nWhen her mother went up to her dressing-room at night, she followed her,\r\nand made the important communication. Its effect was most extraordinary;\r\nfor, on first hearing it, Mrs. Bennet sat quite still, and unable to\r\nutter a syllable. Nor was it under many, many minutes, that she could\r\ncomprehend what she heard, though not in general backward to credit what\r\nwas for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a\r\nlover to any of them. She began at length to recover, to fidget about in\r\nher chair, get up, sit down again, wonder, and bless herself.\r\n\r\n“Good gracious! Lord bless me! only think! dear me! Mr. Darcy! Who would\r\nhave thought it? And is it really true? Oh, my sweetest Lizzy! how rich\r\nand how great you will be! What pin-money, what jewels, what carriages\r\nyou will have! Jane’s is nothing to it--nothing at all. I am so\r\npleased--so happy. Such a charming man! so handsome! so tall! Oh, my\r\ndear Lizzy! pray apologize for my having disliked him so much before. I\r\nhope he will overlook it. Dear, dear Lizzy. A house in town! Everything\r\nthat is charming! Three daughters married! Ten thousand a year! Oh,\r\nLord! what will become of me? I shall go distracted.”\r\n\r\nThis was enough to prove that her approbation need not be doubted; and\r\nElizabeth, rejoicing that such an effusion was heard only by herself,\r\nsoon went away. But before she had been three minutes in her own room,\r\nher mother followed her.\r\n\r\n“My dearest child,” she cried, “I can think of nothing else. Ten\r\nthousand a year, and very likely more! ’Tis as good as a lord! And a\r\nspecial licence--you must and shall be married by a special licence.\r\nBut, my dearest love, tell me what dish Mr. Darcy is particularly fond\r\nof, that I may have it to-morrow.”\r\n\r\nThis was a sad omen of what her mother’s behaviour to the gentleman\r\nhimself might be; and Elizabeth found that, though in the certain\r\npossession of his warmest affection, and secure of her relations’\r\nconsent, there was still something to be wished for. 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