Project Gutenberg #1342
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
1813Austen's social novel, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg HTML as a lighter public-domain counterpart to the nonfiction classics.
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Chapter L. Central question What does Elizabeth learn about Darcy after the crisis? Main argument Elizabeth starts to realize that Darcy has been central to the rescue, and that her gratitude may be as important...
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His daughter’s request, for such it might be considered, of being admitted into her family again, before she set off for the north, received at first an absolute negative. But Jane and Elizabeth, who agreed in wishing, for the sake of their sister’s feelings and consequence, that she should be noticed on her marriage by her parents, urged him so earnestly, yet so rationally and so mildly, to receive her and her husband at Longbourn, as soon as they were married, that he was prevailed on to think as they thought, and act as they wished. And their mother had the satisfaction of knowing, that she should be able to show her married daughter in the neighbourhood, before she was banished to the north. When Mr. Bennet wrote again to his brother, therefore, he sent his permission for them to come; and it was settled, that, as soon as the ceremony was over, they should proceed to Longbourn. Elizabeth was surprised, however, that Wickham should consent to such a scheme; and, had she consulted only her own inclination, any meeting with him would have been the last object of her wishes.