Jennifer Ehle reads Pride and Prejudice part 44 chapters 59 & 60 & 61 The End :)

I just dropped the phone a minute ago here we go okay Oh chapter 59 my dear Lizzy where can you have been talking to was a question which Elizabeth received from Jane as soon as she entered that room and from all the others when they sat down at a table she had only to say in reply that they had wandered about until she was beyond her own knowledge she coloured as she spoke but neither that nor anything else awakened a suspicion of the truth the evening passed quietly unmarked by anything extraordinary the acknowledged lovers talk to laughed the unacknowledged were silent Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth and Elizabeth agitated and Confused rather knew that she was happy then felt herself to be so for besides the immediate embarrassment there were other evils before her she anticipated what would be felt in the family when her situation became known she was aware that no one liked him but Jane and even feared that the others that with the others it was a dislike which not all his fortune and consequence might do away at night she opened her heart to Jane though suspicion was very far from miss Bennet's general habits she was absolutely incredulous here you are joking Lizzy this cannot be engaged to mr. Darcy no no you shall not deceive me I know it to be impossible this is a wretched beginning indeed my sole dependence was on you and I am sure nobody else will believe me if you do not yet indeed I am in earnest I speak nothing but the truth he still loves me and we are engaged Jane looked at her doubtingly Oh Lizzy it I know how much you dislike him you know nothing of the matter that is all to be forgot perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now but in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable this is the last time I shall ever remember it myself miss Bennett still looked in all amazement Elizabeth again and more seriously a shorter of its truth good heaven can it really be so can it be really so yeah now I must believe you cry Jane my dear dear Lizzie I would I do congratulate you but are you certain forgive the question are you quite certain that you can be happy with him there can be no doubt of that it is settled between us already that we are to be the happiest couple in the world but are you please Jane so you like to have such a brother very very much nothing would give me good give either Bingley nor myself more delight but we considered it we talked of it as impossible and do you really love him quite well enough Oh Lizzie do anything rather than marry without affection are you quite sure that you feel what you ought to do oh yes you will only think I feel more than I ought to do when I tell you all do you mean why I must confess that I love him better than I do Bingley I'm afraid you will be angry am i dear sister now be serious I want to talk very seriously let me know everything that I am to know without delay will you tell me how long you have loved him it has been coming on so gradually that I hardly know when it began but I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley another entreaty that she would be serious however produced the desired effect and she soon satisfied Jane by her solemn assurances of attachment when convinced on that article Miss Bennet had nothing further to wish now I am happy said she for you will be as happy as myself I also had a value for him were for nothing but his love of you I must always have esteemed him but now as Bingley's friend and your husband that can be only Bingley in yourself more dear to me but Lissy you have been very sly very reserved with me how little did you tell me of what passed at Pemberley and Lambton I owe all that I know of it to another not to you Elizabeth told her of the motives of her secrecy she had been unwilling to mention Bingley and the unsettled state of her own feelings had made her equally avoid the name of his friend but now she would no longer conceal from her his share in Lydia's marriage all was acknowledged and half the night spent in conversation gracious cried mrs. Bennet as she stood at a window the next morning if that dish Maria or mr. Darcy is not coming here again with our dear Bingley what can he mean by being so tiresome has to be always coming here I had no notion but he would go a shooting or something or rather and not disturb us with his company what shall we do with Lizzy you must walk out with him again that he may not be in Bingley's way Elizabeth could hardly help laughing it so convenient a proposal yet was really vexed but her mother should be always giving him such an epithet epithet but as soon as they entered Bingley looked at her so expressively and shook hands with such warmth as left no doubt of his good information and he soon afterwards said aloud mrs. Bennet have you no more lanes here about and which Lizzy may lose her way again today oh I advise mr. Darcy and Lizzy and Kitty said mrs. Bennet to walk to Oak amount this morning it is a nice long walk and mr. Darcy has never seen the view it may do very well for the others replied mr. Bingley but I'm sure it would be too much for Kitty won't it kitty kitty ode owned that she had rather stay home stay at home Darcy professed a great curiosities to see the view from the mountain Elizabeth silently consented as she went upstairs to get ready mrs. Bennet followed her saying I am quite sorry Lizzy that you should be forced to have that disagreeable man all to yourself but I hope you will not mind it it is all for Jane's sake you know and there is no occasion for talking to him except just now and then so do not put yourself to inconvenience during their walk it was resolved that mr. Bennet's consent should be asked in the course of the evening Elizabeth reserved to herself the application for her mother's she could not be she could not determine how her mother would take it sometimes doubting whether or all his wealth and grandeur would be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man but whether she were violently set against the match or violently delighted with it it was certain that her manner would be equally ill adapted to do credit to her sense and she would no more bear that mr. Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy than the first of the events of her disapprobation in the evening soon after mr. Bennet withdrew to the library she saw mr. Darcy rise also and follow him and her agitation on seeing it was extreme she did not fear her father's opposition but he was going to be made unhappy and that it should be through her means that she his favourite child should be distressing him by her choice should be filling him with fears and regrets in disposing of her was a wretched reflection and she sat in misery till mr. Darcy appeared again when looking at him she was a little relieved by his smile in a few minutes he approached the table where she was sitting with kitty and while pretending to admire her work said in a whisper she was gone directly her father was walking about the room looking grave and anxious Lizzy said he what are you doing are you out of your senses to be accepting this man have you not always hated him how honestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable her expressions more moderate it would have spared her from explanations and professions which it was exceedingly awkward to give but they were now necessary and she assured him with some confusion of her attachment to mr. Darcy or in other words you are determined to have him he is rich to be sure and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane but will they make you happy have you any other objections at Elizabeth in your belief of my indifference none at all we all know him to be a proud unpleasant sort of man but this would be nothing if you really liked him I do I do like him she replied with tears in her eyes who loved him indeed he has no improper pride he's perfectly amiable you do not know what he really is then pray do not pain me by speaking of him in such terms Lizzy said her father I have given him my consent he is a the kind of man indeed to whom I should never dare refuse anything which he condescended to ask I now give it to you if you are resolved on having him but let me advise you to think better of it I know your disposition they see I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable unless you truly esteemed your husband unless you truly unless you looked up to him as a superior your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage not in any way you could scarcely escape discredit or misery my child let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life you know not what you are about Elizabeth still more affected was earnest and solemn in her reply and at length by repeated assurances that mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day but had stood the test of many months suspense and enumerated with energy all his good qualities she did conquer her father's incredulity and reconcile him to the match well my dear said he when she ceased speaking I have no more to say if this be the case he deserves you I could not have parted with you my Lizzy to anyone less worthy to complete the favorable impression she then told him what mr. Darcy had voluntarily done for Lydia he heard her with astonishment this is an evening of wonders indeed and so Darcy did everything made up a match gave the money paid the fellows debts and got him his commission so much the better it will save me a world of trouble and economy had it been your uncle's doing I must and would have paid him but these violent young lovers carry everything their own way I shall offer to pay him tomorrow he will rant and storm about his love for you and there will be an end of the matter he then recollected her embarrassment a few days before on his reading mr. Collins's letter and after laughing at her some time allowed her at last to go saying as she quitted the room if any young men come for Mary or Kitty send the men for I am quite at leisure Elizabeth's mind was now relieved from the very heavy weight and after half an hour's quiet reflection in her own room she was able to join the others with tolerable composure everything was too recent for gaiety but the evening passed tranquil II away there was no longer anything material to be dreaded and the comfort of ease and familiarity would come in time when her mother went up to her dressing room at night she followed her and made the important communication its effect was most extraordinary for on first hearing it mrs. Bennet sat quite still and unable to utter a syllable nor was it under many many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them she began at length to recover to fidget about in her chair get up sit down again wonder and bless herself god bless be only think damn me dossie oh and is it really true rich and how great you will be up in money what carriages you will have jane's is nothing to it nothing at all I am so pleased be such a charming man so handsome so tall oh my prey apologize to me for my having disliked him so much before I hope he will overlook it everything that is charming three daughters married Oh what will become of me I shall go distracted this was enough to prove that her approbation need not be doubted and Elizabeth rejoiced that such an effusion was heard only by herself soon went away rejoicing that such an effusion was heard only by herself soon went away but before she had been three minutes in her in her own room her mother followed had a special license you must I shall be married by a special night but my dearest love tell me what dish mr. Darcy is particularly fond of that I may have it tomorrow this was a sad omen of what her mother's behavior to the gentleman himself might be and Elizabeth found that though in the certain possession of his warmest affection and secure of her relations consent there was still something to be wished for but the morrow passed off much better than expected for mrs. Bennet luckily stood in such a war of her intended son-in-law that she ventured not to speak to him unless it was in her power to offer him any attention or mark her deference for his opinion Elizabeth had the satisfaction of seeing her father taking pains to get acquainted with him and mr. Bennet sooner shorter that he was rising every hour and his esteem I admire rule my three son-in-law was highly said he Wickham perhaps is my favorite but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's chapter 60 Elizabeth's spirits soon rising to playfulness again she wanted mr. Darcy to account for his ever having his having ever fallen in love with her how could you begin she said she I can comprehend you're going on charmingly when you had once made a beginning before could set you off in the first place I cannot fix on the hour or the spot or the look or the words which laid the foundation it is too long ago I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun my beauty you had early withstood and as for my manners my behaviour to you is at least always bordering on the uncivil and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not now be sincere did you admire me for my impertinence for the lightness of your mind I did you may as well call it impertinence and once it was very little less the facts days that you are sick of civility of deference of officious attention you were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking and thinking for your approbation alone I roused and interested you because I was so unlike them had you not been really amiable you would have hated me for it but in spite of the pains you took to disguise yourself your feelings were always Noble and just and in your heart you thoroughly despised the persons who so assiduously courted you assiduously imported you there I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it and really all things considered I begin to think it personally perfectly reasonable to be sure you knew no actual good of me but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love was there no good in your affectionate behaviour to Jane while she was ill at Netherfield dearest Jane who could have done less for her but make a virtue of it by all means my good qualities are under your protection and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible and in return it belongs to me to find occasions for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be and I shall begin directly by asking you what made you so unwilling to to the point at last what made you so shy of me when you first called and afterwards dined here why especially when you're called did you look as if you did not care about me because you were grave and silent and gave me no encouragement but I was embarrassed and so with something you might have talked to me more when you came to dinner a man who had felt last night how unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it but I wonder how long you would have gone on if you had been left to yourself I wonder when you would have spoken if I had not asked you my resolution of thanking you for your kindness to Lydia had certainly great effect too much I'm afraid for what becomes the moral if our comfort Springs from a breach of promise for I ought not to have mentioned the subject this will never do you need not distress yourself the moral will be perfectly fair Lady Catherine's unjustifiable endeavors to separate us with a means of removing all my doubts I am NOT let see you need wait that was really good that was really good I really liked that bit your resolution of thanking me for your kindness to Lydia had certainly great effect my resolution of thanking you for your kindness to Lydia had certainly great effect too much I am afraid for what becomes of the moral if our comfort Springs from a breach of promise for I ought not to have mentioned the subject this will never do do not distress yourself the moral will be perfectly fair Lady Catherine's unjustifiable endeavors to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts I am NOT indebted for my present happiness to your eager desire of expressing your gratitude I was not in a humour to wait for any opening of you was my arts intelligence had given me hope and I was determined that it wants to know everything Lady Catherine has been up to infinite use which what to make her happy for she loves to be of use but tell me what did you come down to another field for was it merely to ride to Longbourn and be embarrassed or had you intended any more serious consequences consequence my real purpose was to see you and to judge if I could whether I might ever hope to make you love me my avowed one or what I vowed to myself was to see whether your sister was still partial to Bingley and if she were to make the confession to him which I have since made shall you ever have courage to announce to Lady Catherine what is to befall her I am more likely to want more time and courage Elizabeth but it ought to be done and if you will give me a sheet of paper it shall be done directly and if I had not a letter to write myself I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing as another young lady once did but I have an aunt to who must no longer be neglected from an unwillingness to confess how much her intimacy with mr. Darcy had been overrated Elizabeth had never yet answered mrs. Gardiner's long letter but now having that to communicate which she knew would be most welcome she was no almost ashamed to find that her uncle and aunt had already lost three days of happiness and immediately wrote as follows I would have thanked you before my dear aunt as I ought to have done for your long long kind satisfactory detail of particulars but to say the truth I was to cross to write you supposed more than really existed but now suppose as much as you choose give a loose rein to your fancy indulge your imagination in every possible flight which the subject will afford and unless you believe me actually married you cannot break the earth you must write again very soon and praise him a great deal more than you did in your last I thank you again and again for not going to the lakes how could I be so silly as to worshiped your idea of the ponies is delightful we will go round the pot every day I am the happiest creature in the world perhaps other people have said so before but not one with such justice I am happier even than Jane she only smiles I laugh mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that he can spare from me you were all to come to Pemberley at Christmas yours etc mr. Darcy's letter to Lady Catherine was in a different style and still different from I though was what mr. Bennet sent to mr. Collins in reply to his last dear sir I must trouble you once more for congratulations Elizabeth will soon be the wife of mr. Darcy consoled Lady Catherine as well you can as you can but if I were you I would stand by my nephew here you are sincerely etc miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother on his approaching marriage were all that was affectionate and insincere she wrote even to Jane on the occasion to express a delight and repeat all have the former professions of regard Jane was not deceived but she was affected and though feeling no reliance on her could not help writing her a much kinder answer than she knew was deserved the joy which Miss Darcy expressed on receiving similar information was as sincere as her brothers and sending it full sides of paper were insufficient to contain all her delight and all her earnest desire of being loved by her sister before any answer could arrive from mr. Collins or any congratulations to Elizabeth from his wife Charlotte but the Longbourn family heard that the Collinses were come themselves to Lucas Lodge the reason of this sudden removal was soon evident Lady Catherine had been rendered so exceedingly angry by the contents of her nephew's letter that Charlotte really rejoicing in the match was anxious to get away tour the storm was blown over at such a moment the arrival of her friend was a sincere pleasure to Elizabeth though in the course of their meetings she must sometimes think the pleasure dearly bought when she saw mr. Darcy exposed to all the parading and obsequious civility of her husband he bore it however though however with admirable ominous he could even listen to Sir William Lucas when he complimented him on carrying away the brightest jewel of the country and expressed his hopes of their rule meeting frequently at st. James's with very decent composure if he did shrug his shoulders it was not all Sir William was out of sight mrs. Philips vulgarity was another and perhaps a greater tax on his forbearance and though mrs. Philips as well as her sister stood in too much awe of him to speak with the familiarity which Billiam Bingley's good humour encouraged yet whenever she did speak she must be vulgar nor was her respect for him though it made her more quiet at all likely to make her more elegant Elizabeth did all she could to shield him from the frequent no to survivor and was ever anxious to keep him to herself and to those of her family with whom he might converse without mortification and though the uncomfortable feelings arising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its pleasure it added to the hope of the future and she looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either to all the comfort and elegance of their family party at chapter 60 happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters with what delighted pride she afterwards visited mrs. Bingley and talked of mrs. Darcy maybe guests I wish I could say for the sake of her family that the accomplishment of her earnest desire in the establishment of so many of her children produced so happy in effect as to make her a sensible amiable well-informed woman for the rest of her life though perhaps it was lucky for her husband who might not have relished domestic Felicity in so unusual a form that she still was occasionally nervous and invariably silly mr. Bennet missed his second daughter is exceedingly his affection for her drew him often earth from home than anything else could do he delighted in going to Pemberley especially when he was least expected mr. Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a 12-month so near a vicinity to her mother and maraton relations was not desirable even to his easy temper or her affectionate heart the darling wish of her his sister's was then gratified he bought an estate in a neighboring County to Derbyshire and Jane Elizabeth in addition to every other source of happiness were within 30 miles of each other Kitty to her very material advantage spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters in society so superior to what she had generally known her improvement was great she was not just of so uncover noble a temper as Lydia and removed from the influence of Lydia's example she became by proper attention and management less irritable less ignorant and less insipid from the further disadvantage of Lydia's society she was of course carefully kept and though mrs. Wickham frequently invited her to come and stay with her with the promise of balls and young men her father would never consent to her going Mary was the only daughter who remained at home and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by mrs. Bennet's being a being quite unable to sit alone Mary was obliged to mix more with the world but she could still moralize over every morning visit and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters beauty and her own it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance as for Wickham and Lydia their characters suffered no revolution from the marriage of her sisters he bore with philosophy the conviction that Elizabeth must now become acquainted with whatever of his ingratitude and falsehood had before been unknown to her and in spite of everything was not wholly without hope that Darcy might yet be propelled on to his fortune the congratulatory letter which Elizabeth received from Lydia on her marriage explained to her that by his wife at least if not by himself such a hope was cherished the letter was to this effect my dear Lizzy I wish you joy if you love mr. Darcy half as well as I do my dear with them you must be very happy it is a great comfort to have you so rich and when you do nothing else to do and when you have nothing else to do I hope you will think of us I'm sure Wickham would like a place at court very much I do not and I do not think we shall have quite money enough to live upon without some help any place would do of about three or four hundred a year but however do not speak to mr. Darcy about it if you had rather not it was etc as it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not she endeavoured and her answer to put an end to every an end to every entreaty and expectation expectation of the kind such relief however was in her power to afford by the practice of what might be called economy in her own private expenses she frequently sent them such relief however as it was in her power to afford by the practice of what might be called economy in her own private expenses she frequently sent them it had always been evident to her that such an income as theirs under the direction of two persons so extravagant in their wants and heedless of the future must be very insufficient to their support and whenever they changed their quarters either Jane or herself were sure of being applied to for some little assistance towards discharging their bills their manner of living even when the restoration of peace dismissed them to a home was unsettled in the extreme they were always moving from place to place in quest of a cheap situation and always spending more than they ought his affection for her soon sunk into indifference hers lasted a little longer and in spite of her youth and her manners she retained all the claims to reputation which her marriage had given her though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley yet for Elizabeth's sake he assisted him further in his profession Lydia was occasionally a visitor there when her husband was gone to enjoy himself in London or bath and with the Bingley's they both of them frequently stayed so long that even Bingley's good humour was overcome and he proceeded so far as oh I see oh they would stay with me and with the Bingley's they both of them frequently stayed so long that even Bingley's good humour was overcome and he proceeded so far as to talk of giving them a hint to be and he proceeded so far as to talk of giving them a hint to be gone Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy's marriage but as she thought it advisable to retain the right of visiting at Pemberley she dropped all her resent was fonder than ever of Georgiana almost as attentive to Darcy as heretofore and paid off every every era of civility to Elizabeth Pemberley was now Georgiana's home and the attachment of the sisters was exactly what Darcy had hoped to see they were able to love each other even as well as they intended Georgiana had the highest opinion in the world of Elizabeth though at first she often listened with an astonishment boarding on alarm at her lively sportive manner of talking to her brother he who had always inspired it aspired in herself a respect which almost overcame her her affection she now saw the Oh scuse me she now saw the object of open pleasantry her mind received knowledge which had never before fallen in her way by Elizabeth's instructions she began to comprehend that a woman may take liberties with her husband which her brother will not always allow in a system within ten years younger than himself Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the marriage of her nephew and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of her character in her apply to the letter which announced its arrangement she sent him language so very abusive especially of Elizabeth that for some time all intercourse was at an end but at length by Elizabeth's persuasion he was prevailed on to overlook the offence and seek a recollection reconciliation and after a little further resistance on the part of his aunt her resentment gave way either to her affection for him or her curiosity to see how his wife conducted herself and she condescended to wait on them at Pemberley in spite of that pollution which its woods had received not merely from the presence of such a mistress but the visits of her uncle and aunt from the city with the gardener's they were always on the most intimate terms Darcy as well as Elizabeth really loved them and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who by bringing her into Derbyshire had been the means of uniting them we did it oh thank you for sheltering with me um that was time well spent for me and I appreciate you showing up and they're all on YouTube these last four three or whatever we just did we'll be there this evening and then they'll all be there and hopefully they'll allow me to make another playlist it's being a bit sticky at the moment but hopefully they will and um thank you thank you for sheltering and thank you for sheltering with me and if you've been working essentially thank you I'm glad you're safe and yes take care

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Published: Sat May 16 2020