Had Lydia’s marriage been concluded on the most honourable terms, it was not to be supposed that Mr.

There were few people on whose secrecy she would have more confidently depended but, at the same time, there was no one whose knowledge of a sister’s frailty would have mortified her so much - not, however, from any fear of disadvantage from it individually to herself, for, at any rate, there seemed a gulf impassable between them. She had no fear of its spreading farther through his means. Darcy acquainted with their fears for her sister for since her marriage would so shortly give the proper termination to the elopement, they might hope to conceal its unfavourable beginning from all those who were not immediately on the spot. Elizabeth was now most heartily sorry that she had, from the distress of the moment, been led to make Mr. She was more alive to the disgrace which the want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter’s nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place. That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all that she could believe possible. He protested that she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion. Bennet found, with amazement and horror, that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter. “A long dispute followed this declaration but Mr.

At the same ball, the strong-willed second daughter Elizabeth Bennet finds herself the object of disdain from Bingley’s arrogant, antisocial friend Darcy.My blogpost is a close reading on four paragraphs from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Volume Three, Chapter Eight. Her prediction proves true at the neighborhood ball, where Bingley and the sweet eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, fall in love at first sight. Bennet expresses the belief that Bingley will fall in love with one of her daughters. Pride and Prejudice opens with the Bennet family's reaction to a bit of social news: the nearby Netherfield house has been leased to Mr.

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Notable Adaptations: 1940 film, 1995 television miniseries (BBC), 2005 film.

Characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet, Charles Bingley, George Wickham, Lydia Bennet, William Collins.

Themes: Love, marriage, pride, social class, wealth, prejudice.

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