Mr.+Darcy's+Proposal+3rd

//**Cirsten Sonntag **//
 * Mr. Darcy's Proposal **

**Important Quotes: **
 * Mr. Darcy is visiting his Aunt Lady Catherine with his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam. Elizabeth gets a headache that prevents her from going to Lady Catherine’s for tea. Mrs. Collins did not press her to go and tried to prevent her husband Mr. Collins from pressing her to go to. After they had left for Lady Catherine’s Elizabeth starts to write a letter when the door bell starts to ring. Thinking that it is Colonel Fitzwilliam she because a little fluttered. That idea was soon banished with she sees Mr. Darcy walk in. In a hurried manner he begins on her health imputing that his visits is to wish of hearing that she is better. Mr. Darcy sits for a while and then gets up and walks around the room. Elizabeth was surprised but didn’t speak. After a while he starts to speak, telling Elizabeth his feelings towards her. Elizabeth was shocked. She doubted but was silent. He considered sufficient encouragement and of all that he felt and had long felt for her. He had feelings besides those feelings in his heart. Besides all of this Elizabeth could not be insensible to such a man’s affection though her intentions did not vary. Not even for an instant. She was first sorry for all the pain he had been receiving. Mr. Darcy was leaning again the mantle listening to Elizabeth speak without saying a word to stop her. She would not have to honor of marrying him. She thinks that he ruined the relationship between Mr. Bingley and Jane. **
 * This affected the characters because now Elizabeth can tell the truth about her feelings and be open about who she likes. Mr. Darcy is upset because the person he loves doesn’t love him and refuses to marry him. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are both different because they are now free to be more open and don’t have to hide their feelings. Mr. Darcy is more open about liking Elizabeth even though she doesn’t like him. **
 * This affects later in the plot because now we all know that Mr. Darcy likes Elizabeth and how she rejects him but no one else knows. Once everyone finds out Mrs. Bennet will be upset and will not be speaking to her because she wanted Elizabeth to marry Mr. Collins. Later one Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth get married. **
 * Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy were the only ones present at the time. Elizabeth was home only when Mr. Darcy came to tell her his feelings and ask for her hand in marriage. He was wishing for a simple yes but no. Elizabeth doesn't want to marry for money she wants to marry for love. **
 * “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.” Said Mr. Darcy. **
 * “In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, 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 acknowledgment it after this explanation.” Said Elizabeth **
 * “I might as well enquire 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 same 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 had been the means of ruining, perhaps forever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?” Said Elizabeth **
 * “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 dent that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other, of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, the other to its derision for disappointed hoped, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.” Said Elizabeth. **
 * “ From the very beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, you manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that ground-work of disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immoveable a dislike; and I had not know you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.” Said Elizabeth **
 * “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.” Said Mr. Darcy **
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