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1While settling this point, she was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell; and her spirits were a little
2fluttered by the idea of its being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself, who had once before called late in the evening, and
3might now come to inquire particularly after her. But this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently
4affected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr. Darcy walk into the room. In a hurried manner he immediately began
5an inquiry after her health, imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better. She answered him with cold
6civility. He sat down for a few moments, and then getting up walked about the room. Elizabeth was surprised, but said
7not a word. After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began:-- "In vain
8have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire
9and love you." Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression. She stared, coloured, doubted, and was silent. This he
10considered sufficient encouragement, and the avowal of all that he felt and had long felt for her immediately followed.
11He spoke well; but there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed, and he was not more eloquent on the
12subject of tenderness than of pride. His sense of her inferiority, of its being a degradation, of the family obstacles
13which judgment had always opposed to inclination, were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was
14wounding, but was very unlikely to recommend his suit. In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike, she could not be
15insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection, and though her intentions did not vary for an instant, she was
16at first sorry for the pain he was to receive; till roused to resentment by his subsequent language, she lost all
17compassion in anger. She tried, however, to compose herself to answer him with patience, when he should have done. He
18concluded with representing to her the strength of that attachment which in spite of all his endeavours he had found
19impossible to conquer; and with expressing his hope that it would now be rewarded by her acceptance of his hand. As he
20said this she could easily see that he had no doubt of a favourable answer. He spoke of apprehension and anxiety, but
21his countenance expressed real security. Such a circumstance could only exasperate farther; and when he ceased the
22colour rose into her cheeks and she said,-- "In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a
23sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned. It is natural that obligation
24should be felt, and if I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you. But I cannot--I have never desired your good
25opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly. I am sorry to have occasioned pain to anyone. It has been
26most unconsciously done, however, and I hope will be of short duration. The feelings which you tell me have long
27prevented the acknowledgment of your regard can have little difficulty in overcoming it after this explanation." Mr.
28Darcy, who was leaning against the mantel-piece with his eyes fixed on her face, seemed to catch her words with no less
29resentment than surprise. His complexion became pale with anger, and the disturbance of his mind was visible in every
30feature. He was struggling for the appearance of composure, and would not open his lips till he believed himself to have
31attained it. The pause was to Elizabeth's feelings dreadful. At length, in a voice of forced calmness, he said,-- "And
32this is all the reply which I am to have the honour of expecting! I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so
33little endeavour at civility, I am thus rejected. But it is of small importance." "I might as well inquire," replied
34she, "why, with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your
35will, against your reason, and even against your character? Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I was uncivil?
36But I have other provocations. You know I have. Had not my own feelings decided against you, had they been indifferent,
37or had they even been favourable, do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the
38means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?" As she pronounced these words, Mr. Darcy
39changed colour; but the emotion was short, and he listened without attempting to interrupt her while she continued,-- "I
40have every reason in the world to think ill of you. No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there.
41You dare not, you cannot deny that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other,
42of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, the other to its derision for disappointed
43hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind." She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that he
44was listening with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse. He even looked at her with a smile
45of affected incredulity. "Can you deny that you have done it?" she repeated. With assumed tranquillity he then replied,
46"I have no wish of denying that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice
47in my success. Towards him I have been kinder than towards myself." Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this
48civil reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her. "But it is not merely this
49affair," she continued, "on which my dislike is founded. Long before it had taken place, my opinion of you was decided.
50Your character was unfolded in the recital which I received many months ago from Mr. Wickham. On this subject, what can
51you have to say? In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend yourself? or under what misrepresentation can
52you here impose upon others?" "You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns," said Darcy, in a less tranquil
53tone, and with a heightened colour. "Who that knows what his misfortunes have been can help feeling an interest in him?"
54"His misfortunes!" repeated Darcy, contemptuously,--"yes, his misfortunes have been great indeed." "And of your
55infliction," cried Elizabeth, with energy; "You have reduced him to his present state of poverty--comparative poverty.
56You have withheld the advantages which you must know to have been designed for him. You have deprived the best years of
57his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert. You have done all this! and yet you can treat
58the mention of his misfortunes with contempt and ridicule." "And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps
59across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so
60fully. My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! But, perhaps," added he, stopping in his walk, and
61turning towards her, "these offences might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of
62the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design. These bitter accusations might have been suppressed,
63had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by
64unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my
65abhorrence. Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related. They were natural and just. Could you expect me to rejoice in
66the inferiority of your connections?--to congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so
67decidedly beneath my own?" Elizabeth felt herself growing more angry every moment; yet she tried to the utmost to speak
68with composure when she said,-- "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected
69me in any other way than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more
70gentlemanlike manner." She saw him start at this; but he said nothing, and she continued,-- "You could not have made me
71the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it." Again his astonishment was obvious;
72and he looked at her with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification. She went on,--
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