Act One, Pt.10
More than once did Elizabeth meet Mr. Darcy at the parsonage, and even a stranger in her morning walks within the park.
Elizabeth took care to inform him at first that it was a favorite haunt of hers.
--How it could happen a second time, therefore, was very odd! -- Yet it did, and even a third.
He never said a great deal; but it struck her that he was asking some odd unconnected questions
--about her pleasure in being at Hunsford, her opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Collins's happiness;
and when speaking of Rosings, he seemed to expect that whenever she came into Kent again she would be staying there too.
Could he have Colonel Fitzwilliam in his thoughts?
Colonel Fitzwilliam: Ah, Miss Bennet.
Elizabeth: Colonel!
Colonel Fitzwilliam: I have been making the tour of the Park. Are you going farther?
Elizabeth: No, I should have turned in a moment. Do you certainly leave Kent on Saturday?
Colonel Fitzwilliam: Yes -- if Darcy does not put it off again.
But we must be leaving soon. He has engagement to keep with Mr. Bingley.
I think you have said that you know him. He’s a great friend of Darcy’s.
Elizabeth: Yes, Mr. Darcy takes a prodigious deal of care of him.
Colonel Fitzwilliam: I really believe Darcy does take care of him.
From something that he told me in our journey hither, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to him.
Elizabeth: What is it you mean?
Colonel Fitzwilliam: What he told me was this, that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage,
but without mentioning names or any other particulars, and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort.
Elizabeth: Did Mr. Darcy give you reasons for this interference?
Colonel Fitzwilliam: I understood that there were some very strong objections to the lady.
Um… goodbye, Elizabeth. I shall see you at Rosings tonight, I hope. Miss Elizabeth?
Elizabeth: What? Uh, yes. Yes, goodbye.
Elizabeth: Mr. Darcy was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause, of all that Jane has suffered, and still suffers.
There were some very strong objections to the lady—yes, the objections of her having one uncle who is a country attorney, and another who is in business.
Oh, he’s the standard of the worst kind of pride!
Charlotte: Eliza, where have you been? We have been wanting to leave for Rosings this past quarter of hour.
Elizabeth: Charlotte, I do not think… Ah, that is, Charlotte, I’m very unwell.
Mr. Collins: Unwell? If she’s not coming, I fear Lady Catherine will be very put out. Miss Elizabeth, Miss Elizabeth!
Charlotte: Leave her, Mr. Collins, we can make her excuses.
Elizabeth chose for her evening’s employment the examination of all of Jane’s letters. It was an absorbing task.
Elizabeth: They contained no actual complaint, but in all, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterize her style, and which so clear—
(Knocking sound.)
Elizabeth: Come in.
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