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Pride and Prejudice
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Your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage.
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You could scarcely escape discredit and misery.
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My child,
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let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life.
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You know not what you are about.”
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Elizabeth,
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still more affected,
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was earnest and solemn in her reply;
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and at length,
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by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice,
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by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone,
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relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day,
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but had stood the test of many months’ suspense,
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and enumerating with energy all his good qualities,
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she did conquer her father’s incredulity,
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and reconcile him to the match.
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“Well,
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my dear,”
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said he,
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when she ceased speaking,
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“I have no more to say.
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If this be the case,
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he deserves you.
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I could not have parted with you,
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my Lizzy,
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to anyone less worthy.”
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To complete the favourable impression,
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she then told him what Mr. Darcy had voluntarily done for Lydia.
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He heard her with astonishment.
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“This is an evening of wonders,
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indeed!
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And so,
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Darcy did every thing;
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made up the match,
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gave the money,
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paid the fellow’s debts,
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and got him his commission!
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So much the better.
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It will save me a world of trouble and economy.
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Had it been your uncle’s doing,
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I must and would have paid him;
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but these violent young lovers carry every thing their own way.
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I shall offer to pay him to-morrow;
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he will rant and storm about his love for you,
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and there will be an end of the matter.”
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He then recollected her embarrassment a few days before,
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on his reading Mr. Collins’s letter;
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and after laughing at her some time,
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allowed her at last to go—saying,
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as she quitted the room,
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“If any young men come for Mary or Kitty,
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send them in,
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for I am quite at leisure.”
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Elizabeth’s mind was now relieved from a very heavy weight;
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and,
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after half an hour’s quiet reflection in her own room,
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she was able to join the others with tolerable composure.
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Every thing was too recent for gaiety,
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but the evening passed tranquilly away;
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there was no longer anything material to be dreaded,
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and the comfort of ease and familiarity would come in time.
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When her mother went up to her dressing-room at night,
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she followed her,
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and made the important communication.
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Its effect was most extraordinary;
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for on first hearing it,
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Mrs. Bennet sat quite still,
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and unable to utter a syllable.
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Nor was it under many,
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many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard;
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though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family,
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or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them.
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She began at length to recover,
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to fidget about in her chair,
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get up,
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sit down again,
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wonder,
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and bless herself.
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“Good gracious!
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Lord bless me!
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only think!
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dear me!
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Mr. Darcy!
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Who would have thought it!
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And is it really true?
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Oh!
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my sweetest Lizzy!
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how rich and how great you will be!
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What pin-money,
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what jewels,
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what carriages you will have!
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Jane’s is nothing to it—nothing at all.
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I am so pleased—so happy.
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Such a charming man!—
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so handsome!
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so tall!—
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Oh,
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my dear Lizzy!
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pray apologise for my having disliked him so much before.
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I hope he will overlook it.
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Dear,
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dear Lizzy.
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A house in town!
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Every thing that is charming!
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Three daughters married!
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Ten thousand a year!
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Oh,
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Lord!
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What will become of me.
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I shall go distracted.”
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This was enough to prove that her approbation need not be doubted:
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and Elizabeth,
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rejoicing that such an effusion was heard only by herself,
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soon went away.
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But before she had been three minutes in her own room,
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her mother followed her.
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“My dearest child,”
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she cried,
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“I can think of nothing else!
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Ten thousand a year,
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and very likely more!
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’Tis as good as a Lord!
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And a special licence.
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You must and shall be married by a special licence.
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But my dearest love,
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tell me what dish Mr. Darcy is particularly fond of,
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that I may have it to-morrow.”
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This was a sad omen of what her mother’s behaviour to the gentleman himself might be;
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and Elizabeth found that,
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though in the certain possession of his warmest affection,
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and secure of her relations’ consent,
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there was still something to be wished for.
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But the morrow passed off much better than she expected;
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for Mrs. Bennet luckily stood in such awe of her intended son-in-law that she ventured not to speak to him,
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unless it was in her power to offer him any attention,
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or mark her deference for his opinion.
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Elizabeth had the satisfaction of seeing her father taking pains to get acquainted with him;
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and Mr. Bennet soon assured her that he was rising every hour in his esteem.
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“I admire all my three sons-in-law highly,”
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said he.
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“Wickham,
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perhaps,
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is my favourite;
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but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane’s.”
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End of chapter 59.
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