Pride and Prejudice Part 13

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So ready for a family adventure? The new Citroen C3 Aircross, the lovers of the wilderness and everyday comfort, now with a £1,500 electric car grant. Welcome to Jane Austin Stories. I'm Julie Andrews and from the Noiser Podcast Network, this is Pride and Prejudges, Part 13. In the previous episode, Lizzie's stay in Kent with Charlotte and Mr. Collins took an unexpected turn with the arrival of some interesting guests. The charming Colonel Fitzwilliam proved to be a welcome addition to the area and Lizzie enjoyed his flirtatious company immensely. First Wickham and now the Colonel, it seems Lizzie may have a soft spot for military men. However, there was a sour note, Fitzwilliam wasn't alone. He was joined in Kent by his cousin, Mr. Darcy. That said, the normally aloof bachelor proved better company than usual, even paying Elizabeth a compliment or two. Not only that, but over the following days Darcy made repeated visits to Mr. Collins Barcinage where Elizabeth has been staying. What's motivating this behaviour and will it alter Lizzie's opinion of Darcy? That remains to be seen, but some huge revelations are in the offing. For now, we rejoin our heroine on a ramble through the scenic countryside, just as she runs into a familiar figure. From the Noisabh podcast network, this is Pride and Prejudice. Chapter 33 More than once did Elizabeth in her ramble within the park unexpectedly meet Mr. Darcy. She felt all the perverseness of Miss Chance that she would bring him where no one else was brought and to prevent its ever-happening again took care to inform him at first that it was a favour at Hont of hers. How it could occur a second time therefore was very odd, yet it did and even a third. It seemed like willful ill nature or a voluntary penance for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her. He never said a great deal, nor did she give herself the trouble of talking or of listening much, but it struck her in the course of their third encounter that he was asking some odd, unconnected questions about her pleasure in being at Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Collins happiness. And that in speaking of rosings and her not perfectly understanding the house, he seemed to expect that whenever she came into Kent again she would restaying there too. His words seemed to imply it. Could he have Colonel Fitzwilliam in his thoughts? She supposed if he meant anything he must mean an illusion to what might arise in that quarter. It distressed her a little and she was quite glad to find herself at the gate in the pales opposite the passanage. She was engaged one day as she walked in prerusing Jane's last letter and dwelling on some passages which proved that Jane had not written in spirits when instead of being again surprised by Mr. Darsie she saw on looking up that Colonel Fitzwilliam was meeting her, putting away the letter immediately and forcing a smile Lizzie said, I did not know before that you ever walked this way. I have been making the tour of the park, replied Colonel Fitzwilliam, as I generally do every year and intended to close it with a call at the passanage, are you going much farther? No, I should have turned in a moment, replied Lizzie and accordingly she did turn and they walked towards the passanage together. Do you certainly leave Kent on Saturday said Lizzie? Yes, replied Fitzwilliam, if Darsie does not put it off again but I am at his disposal, he arranges the business just as he pleases and if not able to please himself in the arrangement replied Lizzie, he has at least great pleasure in the power of choice. I do not know anybody who seems more to enjoy the power of doing what he likes than Mr. Darsie. He likes to have his own way, very well, replied Fitzwilliam, but so we all do, it is only that he has better means of having it than many others because he is rich and many others are poor. I speak, feelingly, a younger son you know must be accustomed to self-denial and dependence. In my opinion said Lizzie, the younger son of an Earl can know very little of either. Now seriously, what have you ever known of self-denial and dependence? When have you been prevented by want of money from going wherever you choose or procuring anything you had a fancy for? These are home questions, replied Fitzwilliam, and perhaps I cannot say that I have experienced many hardships of that nature, but in matters of greater weight I may suffer from the want of money, younger sons cannot marry where they like. Unless where they like women of fortune said Lizzie, which I think they very often do. Our habits of expense make us too dependent, replied Fitzwilliam, there are not many in my rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to money. Is this thought Elizabeth meant for me and she coloured at the idea, but recovering herself said in a lively tone and pray, what is the usual price of an Earl's younger son? Unless the elder brother is very sickly, I suppose you would not ask above 50,000 pounds. He answered her in the same style and the subject dropped. To interrupt a silence which might make fancy her affected with what had passed, she soon afterwards said, I imagine your cousin brought you down with him chiefly for the sake of having somebody at his disposal. I wonder he does not marry to secure a lasting convenience of that kind, but perhaps his sister does as well for the present as she is under his sole care, he may do what he likes with her. No, said Fitzwilliam, that is an advantage which he must divide with me. I am joined with him in the guardianship of Miss Dossie. Are you indeed? And pray, what sort of a guardian do you make? Does your charge give you much trouble? Young ladies of her age are sometimes a little difficult to manage, and if she has the true Dossie spirit, she may like to have her own ways. As she spoke, she observed Fitzwilliam looking at her earnestly, and the manner in which she immediately asked her why she supposed Miss Dossie, likely to give them any uneasiness, convinced her that she had somehow or other got pretty near the truth. She directly replied, you need not be frightened, I never heard any harm of her, and I dare say she is one of the most tractable creatures in the world. She is a very great favorite with some ladies of my acquaintance, Mrs. Hurston, Miss Bingley. I think I have heard you say that you know them. I know them a little. Their brother is a pleasant, gentleman like man, he is a great friend of Dossies. Oh yes, Siddhalizverth, Riley. Mr. Dossie is uncommonly kind to Mr. Bingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care of him. Care of him, cried Fitzwilliam? Yes, I really believe Dossie does take care of him in those points where he most once cared. From something that he told me in our journey, Hiver, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to him, but I ought to beg his pardon, for I have no right to suppose the Bingley was the person meant it was all conjecture. What is it you mean, Lizzie asked? It is a circumstance replied Fitzwilliam, which Dossie of course could not wish to be generally known, because if it were to get round to the ladies family, it would be an unpleasant thing. You may depend upon my not mentioning it, said Lizzie. And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to be Bingley, said Fitzwilliam? What he told me was merely this, that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most impudent 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, and from knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer. Did Mr. Dossie give you his reasons for this interference? Ask Lizzie? I understood that there were some very strong objections against the lady, and what arts did he use to separate them? He did not talk to me of his own arts, said Fitzwilliam, smiling. He only told me what I have now told you. Elizabeth made no answer and walked on her heart swelling with indignation. After watching her a little Fitzwilliam asked her why she was so thoughtful. I am thinking of what you have been telling me, said she. Your cousin's conduct does not suit my feelings. Why was he to be the judge? You are rather disposed to call his interference officious, asked Fitzwilliam. I do not see what right Mr. Dossie had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination, or why upon his own judgment alone he was to determine and direct and what manner that friend was to be happy. But Lizzie continued recollecting herself, as we know none of the particulars, it is not fair to condemn him, it is not to be supposed that there was much affection in the case. That is not an unnatural surmise, said Fitzwilliam, but it is lessening the honour of my cousin's triumph very sadly. This was spoken in jest, but it appeared to her so just a picture of Mr. Dossie that she would not trust herself with an answer and therefore abruptly changing the conversation talked on in different matters, till they reached the passinage. There, shot into her own room as soon as they visited left them, she could think without interruption of all that she had heard. It was not to be supposed that any other people could be meant than those with whom she was connected. There could not exist in the world two men over whom Mr. Dossie could have such boundless influence, that he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Mr. Bingley and Jane, she had never doubted, but she had always attributed to Miss Bingley, the principal design and arrangement of them. If his own vanity however did not mislead him, Mr. Dossie was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause of all that Jane had suffered and still continued to suffer. He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted. There were some very strong objections against the lady, where Colonel Fitzwilliam's words, and these strong objections probably were her having one uncle who was a country attorney and another who was in business in London. To Jane herself, Lizzie exclaimed, there could be no possibility of objection, all loveliness and goodness as she is. Her understanding excellent, her mind improved and her manners captivating, neither could anything be urged against my father, who though with some peculiarities has abilities which Mr. Dossie himself need not disdain and respectability which he will probably never reach. When she thought of her mother, indeed her confidence gave way little, but she would not allow that any objection there had material weight with Mr. Dossie, whose pride she was convinced would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's connections than from their want of sense, and she was quite decided at last that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride and partly by the wish of retaining Mr. Bingley for his sister. The agitation and tears which the subject occasioned brought on a headache and it grew so much worse towards the evening that added to her unwillingness to see Mr. Dossie it determined her not to attend her cousins to Rosings where they were engaged to drink tea. Mrs. Collins, seeing that she was really unwell, did not press her to go and as much as possible, prevented her husband from pressing her, but Mr. Collins could not conceal his apprehension of Lady Catherine's being rather displeased by her staying at home. This episode is sponsored by Magic Radio. Magic Radio plays the best variety from the 80s to now. The songs you love, the ones you know and the ones that lift your die, from Wamp and Whitney in the 80s to take that and the Spice Girls in the 90s, or Pink and Kelly Clarkson in the Naughties and Adele and Bruno Mars in the Tans. Right through to today with artists like Benson Boone, Teddy Swims and Miles Smith. And with Magic's No Repeat Workday you won't hear the same song twice between 9 and 5. Magic Radio has had a real glow up. It's the home of Magic Radio breakfast with Gokwan and Harriet Spart and the world famous Mello Magic is back now hosted by Nikki Chapman. 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They contained no actual complaint nor was there any revival of past occurrences or any communication of present suffering. But in all and in almost every line of each there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterize her style and which proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself and kindly disposed towards everyone had been scarcely ever clouded. Elizabeth noticed every sentence conveying the idea of uneasiness with an attention which it had hardly received on the first perusal. Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict gave her a keen sense of her sister's sufferings. It was some consolation to think that his visit to Rosings was to end on the day after the next and is still greater that in less than a fortnight she should herself be with Jane again and able to contribute to the recovery of her spirits by all that affection could do. She could not think of Darcy's leaving Kent without remembering that his cousin was to go with him but Colonel Fitzwilliam had made it clear that he had no intentions to marry her and agreeable as he was she did not mean to be unhappy about him. While settling this point she was suddenly roused by the sound of the doorbell and her spirits were a little sluttered by the idea of its being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself who had once before called late in the evening and might now come to inquire particularly after her but this idea was soon banished and her spirits were very differently affected. When to her utter amazement she saw Mr Darcy walk into the room. In a horrid manner he immediately began an inquiry after her health imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better. She answered him with cold civility. He sat down for a few moments and then getting up walked about the room. In Elizabeth was surprised but said not a word. After a silence of several minutes he came towards her in an agitated manner and thus began. In vain have I 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. Elizabeth's astonishment was the armed expression. She stared, blushed, doubted and was silent. This he considered sufficient encouragement and the avowl of all that he felt and had long felt for her immediately followed. He spoke well but there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride. His sense of her inferiority of its being a degradation of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to inclination were drawn with a warmth but was very unlikely to recommend his suit. In spite of her deeply rooted dislike she could not be insensible to the complement of such a man's affection and though her intentions did not vary for an instant she was at first sorry for the pain he was to receive. Till roused to resentment by his subsequent language she lost all compassion in anger. She tried however to compose herself to answer him with patience when he should have finished. He concluded with representing to her the strength of that attachment which in spite of all his endeavors he had found impossible to conquer and with expressing his hope that it would now be rewarded by her acceptance of his hand. As he said this she could easily see that he had no doubt of a favorable answer. He spoke of apprehension and anxiety but his countenance expressed real security. Such assurance from him could only exhaustberate further and when he ceased the colour rose into her cheeks and she said in such cases as this it is I believe the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments of our however unequally they may be returned. It is natural that obligation should be felt and if I could feel gratitude I would now thank you but I cannot I have never desired your good opinion and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly. I am sorry to have occasioned pain to anyone it has been most unconsciously done however and I hope will be of short duration. The feelings which you tell me have long prevented the acknowledgement of your regard can have little difficulty in overcoming it after this explanation. Mr Darcy who is leaning against the mantelpiece with his eyes fixed on her face seemed to catch her words with no less resentment than surprise. His complexion became pale with anger and the disturbance of his mind was visible in every feature. He was struggling for the appearance of composure and would not open his lips till he believed himself to have attained it. The pause was to Elizabeth's feelings dreadful. At length in a voice of forced calmness he said and this is all the reply which I am to have the honour of expecting. I might perhaps wish to be informed why with so little endeavour at civility I am thus rejected but it is a small importance. I might as well inquire replied she why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will against your reason and even against your character was not this some excuse for incivility if I was uncivil but I have other provocations you know I have had not my own feelings decided against you had they been indifferent or had they even been favourable do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining perhaps forever the happiness of a most beloved sister as she pronounced these words Mr Darcy changed colour but the emotion was short and he listened without attempting to interrupt her while she continued. I have every reason in the world to think ill of you no motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there you dare not you cannot deny that you have been principle if not the only means of dividing them from each other of exposing one to the centre of the world for Caprice and instability the other to its derision for disappointed hopes and involving them both in misery of the acuteest kind she paused and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse he even looked at her with a smile of effected incredulity can you deny that you have done it she repeated with assumed tranquility he then replied I have no wish of denying that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister or that I rejoice in my success towards him I have been kinder than towards myself illicit with disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection but its meaning did not escape nor was it likely to conciliate her but it is not merely this affair she continued on which my dislike is founded long before it had taken place my opinion of you was decided your character was unfolded in the recital which I received many months ago from Mr. Wickham on this subject what can you have to say in what imaginary act of friendship can you hear defend yourself or under what misrepresentation can you hear impose upon others you taken eager interest in that gentleman's concerns said Darcy in a less tranquil tone who that knows what his misfortunes have been can help feeling an interest in him replied Lizzie his misfortunes repeated Darcy contemptuously yes his misfortunes have been great indeed and of your inflection cried Elizabeth with energy you have reduced him to his present state of poverty comparative poverty you have withheld the advantages which you must know to have been designed for him you have deprived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his dessert you have done all this and yet you can treat the mention of his misfortunes with contempt and ridicule and this cried Darcy as he walk with quick steps across the room is your opinion of me this is the estimation in which you hold me I thank you for explaining it so fully my faults according to this calculation are heavy indeed but perhaps added he stopping in his walk and turning towards her these offenses might have been overlooked had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the screwfuls that had long prevented my forming any serious design these bitter accusations might have been suppressed had I was greater policy concealed my struggles and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified unalloyed inclination by reason by reflection by everything but disguise of every sort is my appearance 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 and life is so decidedly beneath my own Elizabeth felt herself growing more angry every moment yet she tried to the utmost to speak with composure when she said you are mistaken mr. Darcy if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way then as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner she saw him start at this but he said nothing and she continued you could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it again his astonishment was obvious and he looked at her with an expression of mingle the incredulity and mortification she went on from the very beginning from the first moment I may also say of my acquaintance with you your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance your conceit and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others was such as to form that groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry you have said quite enough madam I perfectly comprehend your feelings and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been forgive me for having taken up so much of your time and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness and with these words he hastily left the room and Elizabeth heard him the next moment open the front door and quit the house I do money lies in your current account picking crumbs out of its belly button wondering should I eat them but when you start investing with monzo your money is always busy it turns on regular investments invests your spare change and tops up your stocks and shares I sir it even helps you make sense I've been asking return monzo the bank that gets your money moving you could get back less than your invest monzo current account required UK residents 18 plus decent seas apply at new balance we believe if you run you're a runner however you choose to do it because when you're not worried about doing things the right way you're free to discover your way and that's what running's all about run your way at newbalance.com slash running the tumult of her mind was now painfully great she knew not how to support herself and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half an hour her astonishment as she reflected on what had passed was increased by every review of it that she should receive an offer of marriage from mr. Darcy that he should have been in love with her for so many months so much in love as to wish to marry her inspired all the objections which had made him prevent his friends marrying her sister and which must appear at least with equal force in his own case was almost incredible it was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection but his pride his abominable pride his shameless of vowl of what he had done with respect to Jane his unpartenable assurance in acknowledging though he could not justify it and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned mr. Wickham his cruelty towards whom he had not attempted to deny soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his attachment had for a moment excited she continued in very agitating reflections till the sound of lady Catherine's carriage bringing Charlotte home made her feel how unequal she was to encounter Charlotte's observation and she hurried away to her room you in the next episode Elizabeth reels in the wake of mr. Darcy's disastrous proposal she receives an earth shattering letter which reveals jaw dropping truce about mr. Wickham and mr. 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