Darcy Confesses his Love | Pride and Prejudice | BBC Studios

in vain I have struggled it will not do my feelings will not be repressed you must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you in declaring myself that I am fully aware that I will be going expressly against the wishes of my family my friends and I hardly need out my own better judgment the relative situation of our families is such that any alliance between us must be regarded as a highly reprehensible connection indeed as a rational man I cannot have regarded to such myself but it cannot be helped almost from the earliest moments of our acquaintance I have come to feel for you a passionate admiration and regard which despite all my struggles as they become every rational objection and I beg you most fervently to relieve my suffering and consent to be my wife in such cases as these I believe the established mode is to express a sense of obligation but I cannot I have never desired your good opinion and you have certainly bestowed it most a Twinkie I'm sorry to cause pain to anyone but it was most unconsciously done and I hope will be of short duration and this is all the reply and to expect I might wonder why would service LeFort incivility I'm rejected and I might wonder why with so evident a desire to offend and insult me you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will look it's your reason and even against your character was this not some excuse for incivility if I was uncivil I have every reason in the world to think interview do you think any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who's been the means of ruining the happiness of a most beloved sister can you deny that you have done it I have no wish to deny it I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister and I rejoice in my success towards him I have been kinder than towards myself but it is not merely that on which my dislike of you was founded long before it had taken place my dislike of you was decided when I heard mr. Wickham's story of your dealings with him how can you defend yourself on that subject you take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns who that knows what his misfortunes convincing an interest in him his misfortunes yes his misfortunes have been great indeed and of your infliction you have reduced him to his present state of poverty and yet you could treat his misfortunes with contempt and ridicule and this is her opinion on me my thoughts by this calculation are heavy indeed that perhaps these offences might have been overlooked had not your pride been hurt by the honest confession of the scruples which had long prevented my forming any serious design on you had I concealed my struggles and flattered you but disguise of every sort is my abhorrence nor am i ashamed of the feelings I related they were natural and just could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections to congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so decidedly below my own you're mistaken mr. Darcy the mode of your declaration merely spared me any concern I might have felt in refusing you had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner

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Id: JF3ueHjUc3k

Length: 4min 7sec (247 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 11 2008