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Pride and Prejudice A Play - Jane Austen Mary Medbery Mackaye · Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Pride and Prejudice, a play by Mary
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  Speaker 1: Keith Medbury Mackay. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: Lauren Burwell.
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  Speaker 2: Missus Bennett read by Christine g.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Bennett read by Robert Hoffman.
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  Speaker 4: Lydia read by.
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  Speaker 5: Twin Jane Bennett read by Tiffany Halla, Colonna.
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  Speaker 6: Elizabeth Bennett read by Elizabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Wickham recorded by Chuck Williamson.
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  Speaker 8: Mister Collins read by Noel Beadrian.
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  Speaker 9: Charlotte Lucas read by Amanda Friday Harris, The Butther.
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  Speaker 10: Of Longbourn read by Todd.
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  Speaker 11: Mister Bingley read by Chris Marcellus.
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  Speaker 12: Mister Dashy read by al G.
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  Speaker 13: Pug Hill read Carrie Ray Clerk, the part of Colonel
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  Speaker 13: Foster played by Anthony.
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  Speaker 14: Miss Bingley read by April Gonzalis.
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  Speaker 10: Martin, The Footman and the Voice.
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  Speaker 15: Read by Todd Sir William Lucas read by Nolan Fount.
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  Speaker 4: Lady Lucas read by Dewan.
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  Speaker 10: Colonel Fitzwilliam read by.
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  Speaker 5: Todd Martha, the maid at mister Collins's Parsonage, read by Abbaye.
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  Speaker 16: Lady Catherine de Bourg read by Nathaniel W. C. Higgins,
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  Speaker 16: Act one.
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  Speaker 1: The drawing room at Longbourne. At the back, wide glass
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  Speaker 1: doors open a pond of terrors which overlooks an English landscape.
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  Speaker 1: It is winter and coals are burning in the fireplace.
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  Speaker 1: On each side of the glass doors are rounded recesses
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  Speaker 1: with windows. On one side of the room a door
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  Speaker 1: opens into the library. On the other side is a
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  Speaker 1: door to the hall, the chief entrance of the house.
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  Speaker 1: The room is handsomely furnished in eighteenth century style. Mister
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  Speaker 1: and Missus Bennett are discovered sitting on either side of
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  Speaker 1: the table. Missus Bennett is knitting, Mister Bennett reading after
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  Speaker 1: a slight pause in laying down her knitting.
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  Speaker 2: My dear, mister Bennett, did you not hear me? Did
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  Speaker 2: you know that Netherfield Park is let?
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  Speaker 1: At last, continues reading and does not answer.
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  Speaker 2: Do not you want to know who has taken it?
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  Speaker 1: Cesar's reading and looks up at her with an amuse smile.
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  Speaker 3: You want to tell me, and I have no objection
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  Speaker 3: to hearing it.
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  Speaker 2: Why, my dear, you must know Lady Lucas says that
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  Speaker 2: Netherfield is taken by a young man of a large
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  Speaker 2: fortune from the north of England. His name is Bingley,
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  Speaker 2: and he's single. My dear, think of that, mister Bennett,
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  Speaker 2: a single man of a large fortune, four or five
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  Speaker 2: thousand pounds a year. What a fine thing for our girls.
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  Speaker 16: How so, how can it affect them?
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  Speaker 2: My dear mister Bennett, How can you be so tiresome?
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  Speaker 2: You must know that I am thinking of his marrying
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  Speaker 2: one of them.
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  Speaker 3: Is that his design in settling here?
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  Speaker 2: Design? Nonsense? How can you talk so? But it is
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  Speaker 2: very likely that he will fall in love with one
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  Speaker 2: of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon
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  Speaker 2: as you can. Consider your daughters, Mister Bennett, only think
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  Speaker 2: what an establishment it would be for one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go merely
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  Speaker 2: on that account. Indeed, you must go, for it will
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  Speaker 2: be impossible for us to visit him if you do not.
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  Speaker 1: Who has risen daring this last speech and now stands
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  Speaker 1: with his back to the fire facing missus Bennett, you.
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  Speaker 3: Are overscrupulous, surely, I dare say, mister Bingley will be
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  Speaker 3: very glad to see you, and I will send a
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  Speaker 3: few lines to assure him of my hearty consent to
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  Speaker 3: marrying whichever he chooses of the girls. Though I must
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  Speaker 3: throw in a good word for my little Lizzie.
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  Speaker 2: I desire you will do no such thing. Lissy is
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  Speaker 2: not a bit better than the others. She's not half
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  Speaker 2: as handsome as Jane, nor as good humored as Lydia.
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  Speaker 2: But you are always giving her the preference.
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  Speaker 3: Not unless she deserves it, my dear, But in this
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  Speaker 3: particular instance, my poor little Lizzie is the only one
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  Speaker 3: who is unprovided for. Lydia and the others belong in
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  Speaker 3: the schoolroom. And you tell me that mister Collins has
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  Speaker 3: already spoken for Jane.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's odious, mister Collins. I wish he had never
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  Speaker 2: come here. I wish I might never hear his name again.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Collins. Odious, you surprise me. I thought that he
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  Speaker 3: had won your full approval.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, since he had to be your cousin and
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  Speaker 2: says you will not do anything about the entail. I
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  Speaker 2: suppose it will be a mercy if he does marry Jane.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think, mister Bennett, it is the hardest
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  Speaker 2: thing in the world that we have no son of
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  Speaker 2: our own, so that your property has to be entailed
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  Speaker 2: away from your own wife and children. So if you
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  Speaker 2: should die, we may all be turned out of the house.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever this mister Collins pleases. Ah. He certainly does seem
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  Speaker 2: to have all the luck in the world here. He
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  Speaker 2: has just got his good living from that grand lady
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  Speaker 2: Catherine de Borg.
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  Speaker 3: But my dear, that will soon be your luck as well.
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  Speaker 3: You forget that your daughter is to profit by it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, perhaps I don't know about that, but with renewed excitement,
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  Speaker 2: I do know that it is too monstrous that after
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  Speaker 2: you are gone, I shall be forced to make way
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  Speaker 2: for this man and live to see a master in
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  Speaker 2: this house.
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  Speaker 3: My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves
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  Speaker 3: that I may be the survivor.
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  Speaker 1: This is not very consoling to missus Bennett, and therefore,
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  Speaker 1: instead of making an answer, she goes on as before.
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  Speaker 2: If it was not for the entail, I should not
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  Speaker 2: mind it.
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  Speaker 3: What should you not mind?
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  Speaker 2: I should not mind anything at all.
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  Speaker 3: Let us be thankful that you are preserved from such
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  Speaker 3: a state of insensibility. But it certainly is a most
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  Speaker 3: iniquitous affair, and nothing can clear mister Collins from the
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  Speaker 3: guilt of inheriting Longbourn. However, you know he is doing
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  Speaker 3: his best to mend matters. He has not only handsomely
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  Speaker 3: apologized for his fault, but he has now assured us
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  Speaker 3: of his readiness to make every possible amends by marrying
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  Speaker 3: one of the girls. Surely, my dear, you must acknowledge
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  Speaker 3: that this plan is excessively generous on his part.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I suppose it might be worse.
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  Speaker 3: Decidedly worse, with Jane so well settled and a single
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  Speaker 3: man like mister Bingley. In prospect, I think you should
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  Speaker 3: be quite.
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  Speaker 2: Sure excited once more, mister Bingley, we shall never know.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Bingley. Oh, mister Bennet, you take delight in vexing me.
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  Speaker 2: You have no compassion on my poor nerves.
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  Speaker 3: You mistake, my dear, I have a high respect for
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  Speaker 3: your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard
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  Speaker 3: you mention them with consideration these twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: At least, Ah, you do not know what I suffer.
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  Speaker 1: Bursting into the room follow by.
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  Speaker 17: Jane, Oh, that horrid practice.
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  Speaker 4: Looking back at Jane Jane does so keep me at.
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  Speaker 1: It, throwing herself into a chair.
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  Speaker 4: Lah, I'm tired to death.
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  Speaker 1: Who sees that her mother is half crying, goes and
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  Speaker 1: stands behind her chair, puts her hand affectionately on her shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: and bends over her.
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  Speaker 5: Does your headache, mamma?
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  Speaker 2: Of course my head aches. Your father is so teethy.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot persuade him to call on mister Bingley at Netherfield.
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  Speaker 2: So I suppose we shall never know him smiling.
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  Speaker 5: But you forget, mamma, that we shall meet him at
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  Speaker 5: the assemblies, and Lady Lucas has promised to introduce him.
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  Speaker 2: I do not believe Lady Lucas will do any such thing.
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  Speaker 2: She has a daughter of her own. She is a selfish,
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  Speaker 2: hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Of her, no more have I. And I am glad
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  Speaker 3: that you do not depend on her serving you.
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  Speaker 2: I may have to depend on her after all, mister Bennett,
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  Speaker 2: since you will do nothing to help me.
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  Speaker 1: Fretfully to Lydia, who has been yawning and coughing.
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  Speaker 2: Don't keep coughing, Lydia, for Heaven's sake, have a little
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  Speaker 2: compassion on my nerves.
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  Speaker 1: Lydia pouts and looks unutterable things.
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  Speaker 3: Lydia has no discretion in her coughs. She times them ill.
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  Speaker 17: I do not cough for my own amusement. Papa Jane,
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  Speaker 17: when is your next bar tomorrow?
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  Speaker 1: Fortnight starts excitedly.
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  Speaker 2: Aye, So it is, And Lady Lucas does not come
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  Speaker 2: back to the day before. So you see, it will
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  Speaker 2: be impossible for her to introduce mister Bingley, for she
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  Speaker 2: will not know him herself.
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  Speaker 3: Then, my dear, you may have the advantage of your friend,
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  Speaker 3: and you may introduce mister Bingley to her.
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  Speaker 2: Impossible, mister Bennett, when I am not acquainted with him myself,
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  Speaker 2: how can you be so teasing?
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  Speaker 3: I honor your circumspection. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little.
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  Speaker 3: But if we do not venture, somebody else will. And
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  Speaker 3: if you decline the office, I will take it upon myself.
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  Speaker 1: As the two girls stare at their father.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nonsense, nonsense, I am sick of mister Bingley.
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  Speaker 3: I am sorry to hear that. But why did not
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  Speaker 3: you tell me so before? If I had known as
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  Speaker 3: much a week ago, I certainly should not have called
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  Speaker 3: upon him.
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  Speaker 1: Springing up from her chair and thrown her arms about
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  Speaker 1: mister Bennett's neck.
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  Speaker 2: What you've really called upon him?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: How good in you, my dear miss Bennet.
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  Speaker 3: It is very unlucky. But as I have actually paid
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  Speaker 3: the visit, and as he will very likely return it
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  Speaker 3: at any time and bring his friend mister Darcy with him,
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  Speaker 3: we cannot now avoid the acquaintance of mister Bingley and
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  Speaker 3: his party.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear mister Bennett, I was sure you loved
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  Speaker 2: your girls too well to neglect such an acquaintance.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Bennett definitely takes her hands from his shoulders. She stands,
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  Speaker 1: looking fondly at him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how pleased I am, And it was such a
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  Speaker 2: good joke that you should have already paid mister Bingley
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  Speaker 2: a visit and nervous it a word about it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, well, I must go to the library.
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  Speaker 1: Goes to the door, but stops for a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Lydia, you can cough as much as you choose.
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  Speaker 1: He goes out, looking after mister Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: What an excellent father you have.
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  Speaker 1: Girls, turns to the girls.
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  Speaker 2: I do not know how you will ever make him
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  Speaker 2: laments for his kindness, or me either, for that matter.
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  Speaker 2: At our time of life, it is not so pleasant
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  Speaker 2: to be making new acquaintances every day, but for your sakes,
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  Speaker 2: we would do.
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  Speaker 1: Anything looking about her.
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  Speaker 2: Where is LIZI Lydia, my love? Where is your sister?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 17: She is out walking with Charlotte Lucas and that dismal
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  Speaker 17: mister Collins.
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  Speaker 2: Lucy off working with mister Collins. Why didn't you go, Jane,
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  Speaker 2: I had.
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  Speaker 5: To practice with Lydia.
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  Speaker 17: I'm sure I would have excused you. But what is
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  Speaker 17: mister Collins here for?
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  Speaker 4: Mama?
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  Speaker 17: I am sure I caught mister Wickham and Colonel Forrester
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  Speaker 17: laughing at him the day we went to Meryton. Why
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  Speaker 17: does Papa have a cousin like that?
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  Speaker 2: He really cannot help it. It is the entail, my love, mysteriously,
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  Speaker 2: But I hope that all you girls will be very
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  Speaker 2: civil to him, Jane especially.
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  Speaker 1: I Mamma embarrassed.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, my love you.
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  Speaker 1: She is interrupted by the sound of laughter outside. In
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth's voice.
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  Speaker 6: Very well, mister Collins.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Bennett makes a sudden, odd gesture silence to the
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  Speaker 1: girls who failed to understand. Elizabeth enters by the glass doors.
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  Speaker 1: She is dressed in winter walking costume, a large hat,
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  Speaker 1: fur trim pellerine and a large muff. She stops in
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  Speaker 1: the doorway and looks at missus Bennett, half puzzled and smiling.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what is it, mamma? What is the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing?
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  Speaker 18: Hush?
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  Speaker 2: What have you done with mister Collins?
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  Speaker 1: Laughing?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, mister Collins is safe. He has gone round to
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  Speaker 6: the library with a.
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  Speaker 1: Sigh of relief.
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  Speaker 2: How providential looking back.
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  Speaker 6: But I have brought someone else with me.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Wickham and Charlotte Lucas come in gaily.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, mister Wickham.
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  Speaker 7: To missus Bennett, how do you do, missus Bennett? This
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  Speaker 7: is indeed a pleasure going over to Jane, Miss Bennett,
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  Speaker 7: I am so glad to see you. You were not
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  Speaker 7: with our party to Lydia. Why do you never come
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  Speaker 7: to Merryton, miss Lydia. Mister Denny is quite downcast.
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  Speaker 4: Pouting Lah, mister Danny.
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  Speaker 7: And many other beside him, Miss Lydia Lydia giggles.
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  Speaker 1: Wickham returns to missus Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: Well tis an age since we saw you, mister Wickham.
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  Speaker 2: What have you been doing?
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  Speaker 7: Colonel Forster keeps me so busy that I have no
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  Speaker 7: time for enjoyment.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, mister Wickham bears all the marks of a harassed
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  Speaker 6: and overworked man.
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  Speaker 1: Bowing to Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Miss Elizabeth, you have given me the very
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  Speaker 7: terms I needed.
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  Speaker 1: To Missus Bennett.
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  Speaker 7: You see before you, Missus Bennett, a harassed and overworked man.
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  Speaker 7: Miss Elizabeth will bear witness that I was on my
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  Speaker 7: way to a business appointment when I yield to temptation
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  Speaker 7: and went off for a walk with her and Miss
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  Speaker 7: Lucas and their irreproachable escort.
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  Speaker 6: And Miss Elizabeth will also testify that you yielded with
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  Speaker 6: the celerity and ease of long practice.
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  Speaker 1: Laughing to Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 7: But in this case, who is the tempter?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I will admit that mister Collins was partially responsible.
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  Speaker 2: All laugh Come, Lissie, you have been talking to mister
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  Speaker 2: Wickham all the morning. Now let some of the rest
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  Speaker 2: of us have a chance. Turning to Wickham, you must
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  Speaker 2: state to dinner, mister Wickham.
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  Speaker 7: I wish I might that is indeed a temptation. But
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  Speaker 7: you know, Miss Elizabeth has just reminded me of my duty.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, nobody ever, minds Lissie.
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  Speaker 7: Truly, I cannot today, Missus Bennett. It is too bad,
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  Speaker 7: but I am to meet Colonel Forster aut Elizabeth on
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  Speaker 7: important business at the drake Farm.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm very sorry, hesitatingly.
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  Speaker 7: I might bring Colonel Forster in for a few moments
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  Speaker 7: on the way back, that is, if we return this way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, do yes, indeed, tell Colonel Foster we should
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  Speaker 2: be delighted to see him.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, I will, but now I really must be gone.
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  Speaker 1: Bowing brightly to Jane and Lydia.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning. To Charlotte Lucas, Good morning, miss Lucas. You
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  Speaker 7: must let me hear about those clever plans of yours.
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  Speaker 7: I am vastly interested in them. To Elizabeth, good morning,
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  Speaker 7: miss Elizabeth. You must try to temper your justice with
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  Speaker 7: mercy the next time I join you in a walk.
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  Speaker 1: Pausing, he looks at Missus Bennett, who is staying between
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  Speaker 1: their daughters.
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  Speaker 7: Do you know, Missus Bennett, that you always remind me
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  Speaker 7: of one of my old schoolboy phrases filier polchray marte polkri.
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  Speaker 7: You're goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: He runs off, laughing. He has only gone a few
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  Speaker 1: steps when Lydia, who has been standing close to the door,
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  Speaker 1: runs out and calls.
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  Speaker 17: To him, Oh, mister Wickham.
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  Speaker 1: Wickham turns, and Lydia runs up to him and whispers
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  Speaker 1: something in his ear Wickham laughs, then shakes his finger
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  Speaker 1: at her, still laughing, and goes off. Lydia stops outside
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  Speaker 1: and watches him.
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  Speaker 5: Really, Mamma, I think you should speak to Lydia. She
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  Speaker 5: is too forward.
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  Speaker 2: Nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: You're jealous, jealous of Lydia.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she's no more forward than any of you. All
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  Speaker 2: you girls are crazy about mister Wickham, but I can't
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  Speaker 2: wonder at it. He certainly is a most engaging young man.
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  Speaker 2: What were those French words who said to me as
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  Speaker 2: he went out, Lizzie?
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  Speaker 6: They were Latin? Dear. He paid a very charming compliment
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  Speaker 6: to our pretty mamma. He said, the daughters are lovely,
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  Speaker 6: but the mother is lovelier. You know, Papa always says
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  Speaker 6: that you are handsomer than any of us.
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  Speaker 2: My dear Lucie, I certainly have had my share of beauty,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't pretend to be anything extraordinary.
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  Speaker 1: Now, mister Collins enters.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, mister Collins, there you are bowing profoundly.
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  Speaker 8: I do not find mister Bennett in the library, Madam,
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  Speaker 8: do you know where he is?
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  Speaker 2: Why? Really, mister Collins, I can't imagine. Did you enjoy
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  Speaker 2: your walk?
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  Speaker 8: Most assuredly, madam? The beauties of nature, not only in
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  Speaker 8: the landscape, but also.
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  Speaker 1: Bowing to Elizabeth and Charlotte Lucas.
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  Speaker 8: In the blooming countenances of my fair companions made our
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  Speaker 8: expedition a peculiarly enjoyable.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm very glad of it, I am sure to
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  Speaker 2: Jane and Lydia, girls, we haven't told Lisa in Charlotte
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  Speaker 2: the news.
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  Speaker 1: What news, mamma, looking at Charlotte with an ill conceived triumph.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, nothing of consequence, Lizzie. Only your father has just
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  Speaker 2: told us that we may expect a visit at any
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  Speaker 2: time from a new neighbor, mister Bingley, and that friend
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  Speaker 2: of his who's stopping with him.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, mister Bingley, that will be entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly with mischief, she turns to mister Collins, who, through
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: all this latter conversation has been staring at Jane with
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: solemn persistence.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Do not you think so, mister Collins.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Starting from his absorption, heh what pompously again?
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: Excuse me, miss Elizabeth, on what subject did you ask
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: my opinion?
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: I asked you if you didn't think it was a
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: very pleasant thing to meet new neighbors.
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: Most assuredly, Miss Elizabeth, if those are possessed of those
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: qualifications which readnown to their own credit and to the
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: edification of their friends. Otherwise, as a clergyman, I must hesitate.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: In my approval to missus Bennett.
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: You realize, I am sure, madam, the caution which should
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: ever be exercised where my amiable young cousins are concerned.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Yes, Mamma, you really should be cautious.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Nonsense. Why, my dear mister Collins, we have found out
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: all about them. Mister Bingley and mister Darcy are connected
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: with some of the most respectable families in England.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: Mister Darcy, mister Fitzgerald Darcy, My dear madam, can it
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: be possible that you are to be honored by a
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: visit from him? Respectable? Indeed? Why he is the nephew
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: of my noble patroness, Lady Catherine de Burgh. It is
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: true that I have never yet had the honor of
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: meeting him, but he frequently visits his aunt, and she
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: has promised to bring him on some occasion to inspect
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: my humble abode. I am surprised, indeed, by this civility
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: on his part. I only fear there may be some mistake.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: For mister Darcy has the reputation of possessing a very
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: natural pride of birth. But if your information is indeed
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: to be relied upon, I think Lady Catherine would consent
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: to my approval of this visit, provided my fair cousins
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: will keep in mind the proper attitude of respectful humility
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: which should be assumed towards a person of his superior station.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: We all promise you, mister Collins, never for one instance,
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: to forget either mister Darcy's exalted position or our own insignificance.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: Looking at her with admiration, with assurance Smith's Elizabeth, I
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: think even Lady Catherine would be satisfied. So I need
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: no longer withhold my.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Sanction, curtseying, We thank you, sir.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: This is the very attitude of mind I could.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Desire to missus Bennett.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: I think with your permission, I will now retire again
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: to the library.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Going over smiling to Jane.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: There was a volume of Fordyce's sermons that you may
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: remember I was reading to you in this room yesterday.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: I do not find it in the library. Do you
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: know where it is?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Talking about him?
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: I haven't seen it, mister Collins. I will try to
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: find it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 15: For you.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: She starts as if to go out of the room,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: wishing to leave them together.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: No, no, Lydia will find it. Lydia, my love, go
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: see if you can find the sermons for mister Collins.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Lydia, with a grimace, rises slowly from her chair.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: Oh, missus Bennett, I'm I'm quite sure that I saw
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: the book in the hall. I will go fetch it sharply.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: On no count, Charlotte, Lydia will find the book. Listy,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: go and get the mud of your shoes.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: Oh, I will not trouble any of you, ladies.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: It is no trouble mister Collins. Charlotte, if you will
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: come with me, I have a parcel I should like
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: to send your.
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: Mother, But I assure you, madam.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: As they go out, Missus Bennett, looking daggers at Charlotte,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: tries to keep mister Collins with Jane.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Lydia will find your book, mister Collins.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: On no account, madam.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: With awkward gallantry, mister Collins ushers out the lady Lydia rebellious. Charlotte,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: somewhat offended with a muse smile, having watched the party vanished,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: turns to Jane and speaks to her in a mock
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: rogue fashion, Miss.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: Bennett, do you realize the honor which is so soon
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: to fall upon our humble home and our gratefully humble selves. Smiling, Lizzy,
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: do you really grasp in its full significance the fact
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: that we may soon be honored by a visit from
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: mister Bingley of Netherfield and mister Fitzgerald Darcy, nephew of
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: the Lady Catherine de Burgh.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, Lizzy, mister Collins is a little pompous, but he
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: seems a very well meaning young man, indeed sometimes quite agreeable.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Looking quizzically but affectionately at her sister.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: No one can be anything but agreeable in the mind
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: of our dear Jane. This time, however, I quite agree
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: with you. I am as delighted as Papa with mister Collins.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: I can see that his mixture of servility and importance
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: promises well.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: And I think mister Bingley and mister Darcy promise well.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: If the half of what our neighbors say is true,
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: mister Bingley will give us all sorts of gaieties. Who
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: knows we may find him as entertaining as mister Wickham.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: As mister Wickham then dear Jane, we shall be rich.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Indeed, counting on her fingers.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: For hospitality, mister Bingley for conversation, mister Wickham for grandeur,
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: mister Darcy, and the agreeable mister Collins.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, Lizzie, cannot you let the poor man alone?
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: With all my heart? I will gladly let him alone.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: You shall have him all to yourself. If only mister
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Collins knew your good opinion of him, But he is
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: too modest to find it out for himself.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Playfully, Pauline, Elizabeth's ear, you are a tease entering.
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: The two gentlemen from Netherfield have just brought their horses
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: into the paddock, Madam.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Show them in Harris and speak to missus Bennett at once.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Harris bows and goes out.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: They have come soon, Lizzie, Really this is very civil
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: in them.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: Uncommonly civil. Come with me, Jane. I'm you must make
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: myself tidy, mud and dirty petticoat, so mister Darcy, oh,
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: that would never do.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: They run off, laughing. There is a short pause. Then
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: mister Bingley and mister Darcy enter. The latter is very quiet,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: with an air of scornful hot ear Bingley on the contrary,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: has a gracious and animated manner. Harrish ushers the men,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: much impressed.
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: To Harris, you will announce us to mister Bennett and
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: the ladies.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Harris goes out, Do you.
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: Know, Darcy, I believe that was George Wickham we saw
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: just now going towards the Drake Farm.
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: I think there is no doubt of it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 15: But what is he.
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: Doing here with assumed indifference?
• 25:41
  Speaker 12: Probably it is his regiment which is stationed at Meddyton.
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: No, Darcy, you don't mean it. I confound it. If
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: I had had any notion of that, I.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Contemptuously.
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: They don't think we need mind Wickham.
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: But I do mind to think that I should bring
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: you into the neighborhood of that rass.
• 26:00
  Speaker 12: He must live somewhere, I suppose.
• 26:03
  Speaker 11: Yes, Unfortunately, But Darcy, you are a puzzle to me.
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: You are indeed, how can you speak with any charity
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: of a man who for years abused the patience and
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: generous kindness of your father, and who so lately has
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: attempted against your family the most dastardly action that interrupting
• 26:21
  Speaker 11: him with hot ear.
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: We've already said too much, you, George Wickham. I prefer
• 26:25
  Speaker 12: not to discuss him further.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Bingley turns away her and embarrassed Darcley, seeing the effect
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: of his words in his manner, goes to him kindly
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and speaks to him in a changed voice.
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: Bingley, I entirely understand your indignation. Indeed, I shared it
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: so fully that I dare not trust myself to think
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: of that man's villainy. It is better that I say
• 26:46
  Speaker 12: nothing of him, even to you.
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: I am sure I beg your pardon, Darcy.
• 26:51
  Speaker 12: It is rather for me to ask yours.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: There follows an awkward pause, which Bingley at length breaks
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: by speaking in a tone of forced gaiety.
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: Pretty place this with a shrug, very small? What has
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: the size to do with it? I think we are
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: in luck to have such charming neighbors. You know, we
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: saw two of the young ladies going through the lane
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: the other day, Why, Darcy, one of them is the
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: most beautiful creature I ever beheld, and the other, the
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: one with the dark eyes. She is uncommonly pretty, don't
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: you think so?
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: She is tolerable, But fine eyes cannot change family connections.
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: What do you mean?
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: I think I've heard you say that their uncle is
• 27:32
  Speaker 12: an attorney in Meryton yes, and that they have another
• 27:36
  Speaker 12: in London who lives somewhere near cheapside.
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: If they had uncles enough to fill all cheapside, it
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: wouldn't make them one jot less handsome.
• 27:44
  Speaker 12: But it must materially lessen their chances of marrying men
• 27:47
  Speaker 12: of any consideration in the world of marrying.
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: You go fast, Darcy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 12: Perhaps, but I am in no humor to give consequence
• 27:57
  Speaker 12: to young ladies. I'm here to please you, Bingley, and.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: He smiles meaningfully.
• 28:04
  Speaker 12: Know your disposition. I think it is just as well
• 28:07
  Speaker 12: that I came.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Bingley is about to reply when the door opens and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Missus Bennett enters, followed by Jane and Elizabeth. The two
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: men make ceremonious vows. Missus Bennett Curtseys then advances with
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: delighted fussiness.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Good morning, gentlemen. I am so sorry that mister Bennett
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: has gone for his walk.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: As she looks a little puzzled from one to the other,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Bingley advances.
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Missus Bennett. I am mister Bingley, your new
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: neighbor at Netherfield. This is my friend mister Darcy of Pendleton, Derbyshire.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: All Bow and Curtsey.
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: Mister Bennett has been so kind as to call upon us,
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: and we are most happy to have the honor of
• 28:44
  Speaker 11: waiting upon the ladies of his family.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: We are delighted to see you. I am sure, mister Bingley,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Mister Darcy indicating Jane, my eldest daughter, Miss Bennett indicating Elizabeth,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Miss Elizabeth Bennett.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: The girls make low curtsies, the gentlemen bow, Will you
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: not be seated? Gentlemen, the guests and ladies seat themselves.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I am sure you must like Netherfield, mister Bingley. I
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: do not know a place in the country that is
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: equal to Netherfield. You will not think of quitting in
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: a hurry. I hope, though you have but a short lease.
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: Whatever I do is done in a hurry, Missus Bennett.
• 29:24
  Speaker 11: And therefore, if I should resolve to quit Netherfield, I
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: should probably be off in five minutes At present.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: However, looking intently at Jane.
• 29:32
  Speaker 11: I consider myself as quite fixed here.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: It is very pleasant to have Netherfield open once more.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Although you must both miss London. There is so much
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: gaiety in London.
• 29:45
  Speaker 12: Yes, in a country neighborhood, you move in a confined
• 29:48
  Speaker 12: and unvarying society.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Missus Bennett, looks vexed at the speech.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: But people themselves alter so much that there is something
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: new to be observed in them.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Forever Darcy turns look, said Elizabeth was surprise and interest.
• 30:03
  Speaker 11: Then you are a student of character, miss Elizabeth. It
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: must be an amusing study.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, Lizzy always likes to watch people looking at Darcy,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: and there are plenty of people about, even if you
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: do live in the country. To country is a vast
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: deal pleasanter then London, is it not, mister Bingley.
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: When I am in the country, I never wish to
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: leave it, and when I'm in the town it's pretty
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: much the same. They have each their advantages, and I
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: am equally happy in either.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Aye, that is because you have the right disposition looking
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: at Darcy. But that gentleman seemed to think the country
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: was nothing at all.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: Indeed, Mamma, you are mistaken. You quite mistook, mister Darcy.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: He only meant that there is not such a variety
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: of people to be met with in the country as
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: in town, which you must acknowledge to be true.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Certainly, my dear, nobody's said there was. But as to
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: not meeting with many people in this neighborhood, I believe
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: there are a few neighborhoods low. I know we dine
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: with four and twenty families.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: As all become embarrassed at the speech, Bingley comes to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the rescue.
• 31:09
  Speaker 11: Yes, there are many fine estates here about. Can you
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: see Sir William Lucas's place from the garden? I'm not
• 31:15
  Speaker 11: quite sure I have placed it.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, there is a fine view of the chimneys
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: from the terrace. Sir William is our nearest neighbor. Such
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: an agreeable man, so gentle and so easy.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Rising, she goes towards the glass doors.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Come, Jane, we must show mister Bingley Sir William's chimneys.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Missus Bennett, Bingley and Jane go out upon the terrace.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Would not you also like to see the chimneys?
• 31:42
  Speaker 12: Mister Darcy, Thank you, Like yourself, I prefer people to places.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: Did I say that?
• 31:50
  Speaker 12: Not precisely? But I have drawn that conclusion.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Gathering her sewing materials, begins to embroider.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: Well, I can laugh at peace. People better than places,
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: and ideally love a laugh.
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: Isn't that rather a dangerous tray? Miss Bennett? The wisest
• 32:08
  Speaker 12: and the best of men may be rendered ridiculous bad
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: person whose first object in life is a joke.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Certainly, but I hope I never ridicule what is wise
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: or good. Whims and inconsistencies do divert me. I own,
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: and I laugh at them whenever I can. That these
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: I suppose are precisely what you are without.
• 32:30
  Speaker 12: Perhaps that is not possible for anyone, But it has
• 32:33
  Speaker 12: been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses
• 32:36
  Speaker 12: which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: And in your list of weaknesses, do you include such
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: faults as vanity and pride for instance?
• 32:46
  Speaker 12: Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed, but pride, where there
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: is real superiority of mind, pride will always be under
• 32:55
  Speaker 12: good regulation.
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: I am perfectly convinced, mister Darcy, that you have no defect.
• 33:02
  Speaker 12: I made no such pretension, Miss Bennet, I have faults
• 33:05
  Speaker 12: enough my temper I dare not vouch for. I cannot
• 33:09
  Speaker 12: forget the follies and vices of others against myself. My
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: good opinion, once lost is lost forever.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: That is a failing. Indeed, implacable resentment is a shade
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: in a character. But you have chosen your fault well,
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me.
• 33:29
  Speaker 12: There is I believe in every disposition, a hindency to
• 33:33
  Speaker 12: some particular evil, a natural defect which not even the
• 33:36
  Speaker 12: best education can overcome.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: And your defect is a propensity to hate.
• 33:41
  Speaker 12: Everybody, and yours to wilfully misunderstand them.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Voices are heard outside. Elizabeth applies herself to Embroidery Bingley,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Jane and Missus Bennet return from the terrace.
• 33:54
  Speaker 11: The surrounding countryside is really charming, Missus Bennet.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: We think so. But you must give us a ball
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: at Netherfield, mister Bingley, and then you will see that
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: some of the people who live here are worth knowing.
• 34:07
  Speaker 11: Oh, Mamma, mamma, certainly, Missus Bennett. I had already decided
• 34:12
  Speaker 11: upon it. I told mister Darcy only yesterday that as
• 34:15
  Speaker 11: soon as my sister, Miss Bingley had arrived and Nicholas
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: could make white soup enough, I should send out my cards,
• 34:21
  Speaker 11: did not I, Darcy?
• 34:23
  Speaker 12: I believe you did well.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: That is vastly good in you, mister Bingley, and then
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: perhaps your friend may change his mind about the country.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: To Darcy, you didn't come to admire Sir William's chimneys.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Mister Darcy.
• 34:37
  Speaker 12: I was admiring your daughter's work, Madam.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, you should see Jane's work. Liss is all for books,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: like her father. She is a great reader and has
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: no pleasure in anything else. Jane, show your embroidered parrot
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: to mister Bingley.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: I do not think mister Bingley would be interested, ma'am.
• 34:56
  Speaker 11: Oh, indeed, I should miss Bennett. I am very much
• 34:59
  Speaker 11: interested in parrot. Pray show it to me, yes, and a.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: New hand screen. I will find it for you.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: All three withdraw, leaving Elizabeth and Darcy together.
• 35:10
  Speaker 12: And so you are a great reader and take no
• 35:12
  Speaker 12: pleasure in anything else.
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: Mamma does not understand. I deserve neither such praise or
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: such censure. I am not a great reader, and I
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: have pleasure in many things.
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: So I should have thought, looking at the screen which
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: he holds.
• 35:28
  Speaker 11: In his hand, it is amazing to me how young
• 35:30
  Speaker 11: ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as
• 35:33
  Speaker 11: they are. To think how you all paint tables and
• 35:36
  Speaker 11: cover screens and net purses. It is quite wonderful.
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: Do you agree with your friend mister Darcy, whose list.
• 35:43
  Speaker 12: Of the common extent of accomplishments has too much truth?
• 35:46
  Speaker 12: But I cannot boast of knowing more than half a
• 35:48
  Speaker 12: dozen young ladies and a whole rage of may acquaintance
• 35:51
  Speaker 12: that are really accomplished.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Then you must comprehend a great deal in your idea
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: of an accomplished woman.
• 35:59
  Speaker 12: Perhaps to deserve the word, a woman must have her
• 36:02
  Speaker 12: thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages.
• 36:07
  Speaker 12: She must also possess a certain something in her air
• 36:11
  Speaker 12: and manner of walking, the turn of her voice, her
• 36:14
  Speaker 12: address and expression, and wal is. She must yet add
• 36:17
  Speaker 12: something more substantial, with a.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Little bow to Elizabeth, in the improvement.
• 36:22
  Speaker 12: Of her mind by extensive reading.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: I am no longer surprised at your knowing only sex
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: accomplished women. I rather wonder at your knowing any enters.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: And announces Colonel Foster.
• 36:36
  Speaker 10: I'm mister Workom.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: The gentleman enters, smiling.
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: Here I am again, missus Bennet. I found that Colonel
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: Forster had a message for the young ladies.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: I am delighted to see you. You are just in
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: time to meet on your.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Neighbors, introducing the gentleman.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Colonel Foster, mister Wickham, mister Bingley, mister Darcy.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: As the gentleman enter. Mister Darcy has his back turned
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: to them in conversation with Elizabeth. At the sound of
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Wickham's voice, he starts and turns so that he faces
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the ladder just in time for the introduction. At the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: sight of Darcy, Wickham starts and is gravely confused. Darcy
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: stiffens and scarcely nods when Wickham is introduced. The whole
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: situation is so marked that everyone looks on with an astonishment,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: to which Missus Bennett gives audible expression.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Well, well, if ever there was a proud stiff man.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Mamma, looking distress, speaks hurriedly.
• 37:34
  Speaker 11: Oh, missus Bennett, I'm sorry that we cannot wait for
• 37:37
  Speaker 11: mister Bennett. We we were on our way to meet
• 37:40
  Speaker 11: my Stewart, and we are all ready late for the appointment.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I am very sorry you must go, mister Bingley, but
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: I hope you will come again. We must engage you
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: soon for dinner.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: In an absent and worried way.
• 37:53
  Speaker 11: It will be a pleasure.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Then, with bows, the party moves towards the door, bustling.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Your best way to is by the terrace.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: The gentlemen have almost reached the glass doors when mister
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Collins comes in excitedly, putting himself directly in the way
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of Bingley and Darcy.
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: My dear miss Elizabeth, I have this moment found out
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: by a singular accident, that there is now in this
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: room a near relation of my patroness, Lady Catherine de Burgh.
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: Will you present me?
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: He looks inquiringly from one to the other of the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: young men.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: Mister Bingley, allow me to present my cousin, mister Collins,
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: mister Darcy.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Mister Collins, taking almost no notice of mister Bingley. He
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: greets mister Darcy with servile effusion.
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: My dear sir, I trust you will pardon me for
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: not having paid my respects before. My total ignorance of
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: your presence here, must plead my apology.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Looking severely about him at the lady I.
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: Was not informed of it. Is there any message, sir,
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: which I could take from you to my honored patroness,
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: your aunt, or to your fair cousin, Miss debug Thank you.
• 39:15
  Speaker 12: I will not trouble you so far.
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: It would be no trouble but an honor and a privilege.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Disgusted turns from him to Bingley.
• 39:26
  Speaker 12: We're already very late, Bingley.
• 39:29
  Speaker 11: Yes, we have no time to lose.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Darcy and Bingley give passing bows and go out by
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the glass doors. Mister Collins keeps by Darcy's side, and
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: as they pass out of sight, is seen still talking
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to him, to his evident annoyance. All the time that
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the party is bidding goodbye to Bingley and Darcy. Wickham
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: has been mootally standing by the fireplace. Elizabeth has evidently
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: been concerned about him, for throughout the foregoing interview with
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: mister Collins, she has looked at Wickham from time to time.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Enters at the door, lead the hall. May I speak
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: to you, Madame?
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, Hill, Yes to the gentlemen. Excuse me for a moment.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I will return directly, missus Bennett and Hill go out.
• 40:13
  Speaker 13: Oh, miss Bennett, Miss Elizabeth, your aunt, Miss Phillips has
• 40:17
  Speaker 13: sent word by me that her card party is to
• 40:19
  Speaker 13: be on Wednesday.
• 40:20
  Speaker 19: She hopes you will surely be there.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: In a preoccupied way, looking towards Wickham.
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, we shall go.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: As he passes the piano and looking at some music
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: which is.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: On the rack.
• 40:33
  Speaker 13: Ah, here's a song you've promised to sing me pray
• 40:36
  Speaker 13: sing it now, Miss Elizabeth.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: Really Kendel Forster you must excuse me for today Jane
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: will play for you instead.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: Indeed, I cannot.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Lizzie looking meaningfully at her.
• 40:48
  Speaker 13: Please Jane, Oh do I beg Miss Bennett.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: All through the following interview between Elizabeth and Wickham, the
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: tinkle of the instrument is heard during their conversation. James
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: back is turned also Colonel Forster's as he looks over
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: the music, so that Elizabeth and Wickham are practically alone.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth returns to embroidery. There is an awkward pause for
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: a moment. Wikim finally breaks it.
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: How long has mister Darcy been in Hertfordshire, Miss Elizabeth?
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: Only for a very short time. I believe he comes
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: from Derbyshire, I understand, and has a very large property there.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: Yes, his estate is a noble one, a clear ten
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: thousand per annum. I am well informed on this head.
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: I have been connected with mister Darcy's family in a
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: particular matter since my infancy. Indeed, you may well be surprised,
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: Miss Elizabeth, at this assertion, after seeing the very cold
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: manner of our meeting just now? Are you much acquainted
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: with mister Darcy?
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: No, though I have heard of him, I met him
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: for the first time today. But even on this short acquaintance,
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: I should take him to be an ill tempered man,
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: as if he had come.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: To a sudden decision.
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: Miss Elizabeth, you have been a witness of mister Darcy's
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: treatment of me today, and therefore I feel that I must,
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: for my own justification, acquaint you with the facts of
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: my past connection with him.
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: I shall respect your confidence, mister Wickham.
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: I am sure of it. Mister Darcy and I were
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: born in the same parish. My own father, who to
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: be Frank, was steward of the Darcy estates, gave up
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: everything to serve the interest of the Darcy family. Mister
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: Darcy's father was excessively attached to me, indeed I was
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: his godson. He meant to provide for me amply, and
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: thought he had done so. I was destined for the church,
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: and mister Darcy's father left to me a most valuable living.
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: But the present mister Darcy chose to ignore his father's
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: will and gave the living to another man. This closed
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: for me the career for which I was most fitted,
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: and left me with almost no means of support.
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: Good heavens, but how could that be? Why did not
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: you seek legal redress.
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: There was an informality in the terms of the will
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: which gave me no hope from the law. Mister Darcy's
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: father had relied implicitly upon the honor of his son.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: But this is quite shocking. Mister Darcy deserves to be
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: publicly disgraced.
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: Sometime or other. He will be till I can forget
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: his father. I can never defy or expose him.
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: This feeling does you honor. But what can have induced
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: mister Darcy to behave so cruelly?
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: I must attribute it in some measure to his jealousy.
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: His father's uncommon attachment to me irritated him. But the
• 44:14
  Speaker 7: fact is, Miss Elizabeth, as you can see, we are
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: very different men, and he hates me.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: His disposition must be dreadful.
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: I will not trust myself on that subject.
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: To treat in such a manner the godson, the friend,
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: the favorite of his father. How abominable.
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: And yet, Miss Elizabeth, we must try to be just
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: to him. Mister Darcy has many good qualities. He can
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: be both liberal and generous. He has also a brother's
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: affection and pride, which makes him a careful guardian of
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: his sister.
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: Oh he has a sister.
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: Yes, you will hear him cried up as the most
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: attentive and best of brothers. Oh, mister Darcy can please
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: when he chooses among those who are his equals, he
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: is a very different man from what he is to
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: the less prosperous, contemptible.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Interrupting Wickham starting Yes, Colonel.
• 45:20
  Speaker 19: Forster, I fear we must be going.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Hurriedly to Elizabeth.
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: Thank you for listening to me. It is hard to
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: be misjudged.
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: Thank you for your confidence. It is well to know
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: the truth.
• 45:35
  Speaker 13: Well, miss Elizabeth, I hope we shall see you all
• 45:38
  Speaker 13: at your aunt's on Wednesday. Good morning to Jane. Good morning,
• 45:43
  Speaker 13: Miss Bennett. Thank you for the music. Please present my
• 45:47
  Speaker 13: respects to missus Bennett. I'm sorry that we cannot wait longer.
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: Yes, miss Bennett, be sure to give your mother my
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: best regards.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Good morning, all bow and courtesy.
• 46:00
  Speaker 15: He is leaving.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: He speaks aside.
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: Oh, miss Elizabeth, may I entreat.
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: You may depend upon my sympathy.
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: Looking at her with an understanding smile, I am most
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: grateful the gentleman.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Go out the door. Jane and Elizabeth go into the
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: recess and look from the window. There is a short
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: pause enters flurried and looks about her.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Well have they gone?
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Mister Collins enters through the glass doors at the center
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: he sees Missus Bennett.
• 46:31
  Speaker 8: Oh, madam, I am just returned from attending on mister Darcy.
• 46:37
  Speaker 8: Such a privilege. He was most condescending. I was able
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: to tell him that Lady Catherine was very well on Saturday, sadnight.
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: He is very light. Lady Catherine, I am sure you
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: must have been impressed by his distinguished manners.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Well really, mister Collins.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: A titter is her from the recess where the girls
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: are seated, and then Jane's voice, oh, Lizzie, hush. Hearing this,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: turns and discovers the two girls. Then he speaks to
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Missus Bennett with lowered voice, as if an idea had
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: just come to him.
• 47:14
  Speaker 8: This meeting is most opportune. Will you kindly step this
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: way for a moment?
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: He draws Missus Bennett aside.
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair
• 47:27
  Speaker 8: daughter Jane in the matter on which we were speaking yesterday,
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: I would solicit the honor of a private audience with
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: her this morning.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Certainly, mister Collins hesitating, But there have been some changes
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: since then, some things have happened. I think it is
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: right you should know that that Jane is very likely
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: to be.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Soon engaged encouragingly.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: But there was Elizabeth. I cannot take it upon myself
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: to say I cannot possibly answer, but I do not
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: know of any prepossession in her case, and I am
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: sure she can have no objection to listen to you.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Missus Bennett goes to the fire and stirs it as
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: soon as she has finished.
• 48:10
  Speaker 8: Then Miss Elizabeth, let it be, Madam. I was struck
• 48:14
  Speaker 8: by her attitude of respectful awe when I mentioned the
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: lady Catherine de Burgh. Such modesty and humility of mind.
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: Cannot but recommend her to my patroness.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Looking rather astonished at this last speech, but recovering herself.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, my daughter Elizabeth knows what is proper. She will
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: be very happy to listen to you. Shall I call
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: her out?
• 48:39
  Speaker 8: I think, Madam, there should be no further loss of time,
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: as my leave of absence extends only to the coming Saturday.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Very well.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: She goes to the recess where the two girls are
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: talking together.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Jane, I want you upstairs, Lissy. Mister Collins has something
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: he wishes to say to you.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Suspicious and dismayed.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: Dear mister Collins, must excuse me, I was just going
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: away myself.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Now, no nonsense, Lizzie, I desire you will stay. Mister
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: Collins has something very particular to say to you.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: As Elizabeth tries to escape, Lissie.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: I insist upon you staying and hearing mister Collins, come Jane.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Missus Bennett and Jane go out, approaching Elizabeth, who does
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: not move from the place where her mother left her.
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: Believe me, my dear miss Elizabeth, your modesty so far
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: from doing you any disservice, rather adds to your other perfections.
• 49:37
  Speaker 8: But allow me to assure you that I have your
• 49:40
  Speaker 8: respected mother's permission for this address.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: His course, Elizabeth, with clumsy gallantry, to the sofa, then
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: brings a chair and seats himself opposite her. Elizabeth has
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: recovered herself sufficiently to begin to enjoy the humor of
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: the situation.
• 49:55
  Speaker 8: My fair cousin, you must have at least surmised that
• 49:59
  Speaker 8: I am about to ask you to become the companion
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: of my life, and perhaps I had better begin by
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: stating my reasons for this decision before I am run
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: away with by my feelings on this subject.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth is so overcome with laughter at this idea that
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: she can hardly speak or keep a decent countenance.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: Oh, I beg mister Collins one moment.
• 50:24
  Speaker 8: My reasons for marrying are are. First that I think
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: it a right thing for every clergyman to set the
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: example of matrimony to his parish. Second, I am convinced
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: it will add very greatly to my happiness. Third, it
• 50:39
  Speaker 8: is the particular advice of that very noble lady whom
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: I have the honor of calling patroness.
• 50:47
  Speaker 6: Believe me, mister Collins.
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: Excuse me one moment. It remains only to be told
• 50:54
  Speaker 8: why my views were directed to Longbourn instead of to
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: my own neighborhood. The fact is that, being as I
• 51:02
  Speaker 8: am to inherit this estate after the death of your father, who, however,
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: may live many years longer, I could not satisfy myself
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughters,
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: that the loss to them might be as little as
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: possible when the melancholy event took place. This has been
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself. It
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: will not sink me in your esteem, mister Collins.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I rising and approaching nearer to Elizabeth.
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: Still one moment more, and now nothing remains for me
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: but to assure you in the most animated language of
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: the violence of my affection to fortune. I am perfectly indifferent,
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: and you may assure yourself that no ungenerous reproach on
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: that score shall ever pass my lips when we are married.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Rising in her turn.
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: You are too hasty, sir. You forget that I have
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: made no answer except my thanks for the compliment you
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: are paying me. I am very sensible of the honor
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: do otherwise than decline them.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: With another formal wave of the hand.
• 52:19
  Speaker 8: I am not unmindful of the fact that sometimes a
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: young lady's refusal is repeated a second or even a
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: third time. I am, therefore, by no means discouraged by
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: what you have just said, and I shall hope to
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: lead you to the altar ere long.
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: Upon my word. Sir, your hope is rather an extraordinary one.
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: After my last declaration. You must pay me the compliment
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: of believing what I say. I wish you very happy,
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: very rich, and by refusing your hand, do all in
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: my power to prevent your being Otherwise this matter may
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: be considered therefore as definitely settled.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: She is that room when mister Collins detains her one moment.
• 53:04
  Speaker 8: When I do myself the honor of speaking to you
• 53:07
  Speaker 8: next on this subject, I shall hope to receive a
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: more favorable answer.
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: Really, mister Collins, you puzzle me exceedingly. I know not
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: how to express my refusal in such a way as
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: may convince you of its being one.
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin,
• 53:25
  Speaker 8: that your refusals of my address are merely words. Of course,
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: I shall choose to attribute them to your wish of
• 53:33
  Speaker 8: increasing my love by suspense according to the usual practice
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: of elegant females.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: Please do not consider me now as an elegant female.
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: sincere to accept your proposal is absolutely impossible, Can I
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: speak plainer?
• 53:55
  Speaker 8: You are uniformly charming, But I am persuaded that when
• 54:00
  Speaker 8: my proposals are sanctioned by both your parents, they will
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: not fail of being acceptable. Meanwhile, I may perhaps best
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: serve my cause by leaving you to consider the matter
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: by yourself for a while.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: He bows and withdraws to the door. Elizabeth with a
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: gesture as if she gave the whole matter up in despair,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: yet half amused, goes to the fireplace. Just as mister
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Colin reaches the door, Missus Bennett opens it.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Well, mister Collins, are we to congratulate each other?
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Looking doubtfully at Elizabeth, has all gone.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: As you could wish.
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: I have every reason to be satisfied, Madam. My cousin
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: has indeed steadily refused this my first offer, and with
• 54:43
  Speaker 8: considerable warmth. But this refusal would naturally flow from her
• 54:48
  Speaker 8: bashful modesty. With your influence behind me, I have no
• 54:53
  Speaker 8: doubt of my ultimate success.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, you may depend upon me, mister Collins. I will
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: speak to Lissie myself directly. She's a very head strong,
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: foolish girl and does not know her own interest, but
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: I will make her know it.
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: Pardon me, madam, But if she is really headstrong and foolish,
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: I know not whether she would altogether be a very
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: desirable wife to a man in my situation. If therefore,
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: Miss Elizabeth persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: better not to force her into accepting me.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Sir, you quite misunderstand me. Lissy's only head strongly in
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: such manner as these. In everything else, she is as
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: good natured a girl as ever lived. Let me see
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: her alone for a moment. That will be the best.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: But Madam, I almost forcing mister Collins out of the room.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, I shall very soon settle it with her. I
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: am sure.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Mister Colin goes out. Missus Bennett goes quickly to Elizabeth.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Lissy, what is the meaning of all this? Have you refused,
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: mister Collins.
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: Yes, mamma, but please listen.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: No, I will not listen. I tell you what, Miss Lizzie.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: If you take it into your head to go on
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: refusing every offer of marriage in this way, you will
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: never get a husband at all. I am going at
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: once to the library and speak to your father. You
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: will listen to him. Perhaps.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Missus Bennett starts to go when she sees mister Bennett
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: outside passing the glass doors. He is just returning from
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: his walk and carries a book under his arm.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, there is now.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: She runs to the door and opens it.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, mister Bennett, mister Bennett.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Mister Bennett turns. Missus Bennett runs out, takes him by
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the arm. And tries to pull him into the room
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: by main force. Mister Bennett, puzzled, submits while she draws
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: mister Bennett into the room.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, mister Bennett, you'll want it immediately. We're all in
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: an opera. You must come and make Lizzie marry mister Collins,
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: for she vows she will not have him, and if
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: you do not make haste, mister Collins will change his
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: mind and not have her.
• 57:00
  Speaker 18: I have not the pleasure of understanding you of what
• 57:04
  Speaker 18: are you talking.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Of, mister Collins? And Lyssie. Lizzie declares she will not
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: have mister Collins, and mister Collins begins to say, you
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: will not have Lizzie.
• 57:14
  Speaker 18: Lizzie. I thought it was Jane.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: No, no, it's Lussie now.
• 57:19
  Speaker 18: Ah, And what am I to do on the occasion?
• 57:22
  Speaker 18: It seems a hopeless business?
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: Speak to Lyssie.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: There she is pointing to Elizabeth at the fireplace.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Tell her that you insist upon her marrying him.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Turning to Elizabeth, come here, child, Elizabeth goes to her father.
• 57:38
  Speaker 18: This is an affair of importance. I understand that mister
• 57:42
  Speaker 18: Collins has made you an offer of marriage. Is this true?
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: Yes, Papa, it is very well.
• 57:49
  Speaker 18: And this offer of marriage you have refused.
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: I have, sir.
• 57:54
  Speaker 18: We now come to the point your mother insists upon
• 57:57
  Speaker 18: your accepting him. Is that not so, missus Bennett?
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Yes? Or I will never see her again.
• 58:04
  Speaker 18: An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day
• 58:09
  Speaker 18: you must be a stranger to one of your parents.
• 58:12
  Speaker 18: Your mother will never see you again if you do
• 58:15
  Speaker 18: not marry mister Collins, and I will never see you
• 58:18
  Speaker 18: again if you do.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: End of Act one, Act Too of Pride and Prejudice,
• 58:38
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• 58:53
  Speaker 1: The Conservatory or Radrey at Netherfield. On one side, an
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: archway approached by two or three steps and hung with curtains,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: separates the orangery from the ballroom. On the opposite side
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: is a smaller archway with curtains which are looped back,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: giving a glimpse of the drawing room beyond. There is
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: another door on the right. Bingley's discovered directing two footmen
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: who are putting a bench in place. Darcy stands watching.
• 59:18
  Speaker 11: Them a little more to the right, Martin, that will
• 59:21
  Speaker 11: do push those lights farther back behind the trees. Yes,
• 59:25
  Speaker 11: that is better looking about him. I think that is all.
• 59:29
  Speaker 11: You may go the men leave the room. Well, Darcy,
• 59:32
  Speaker 11: do you approve of the arrangements? Have you anything to
• 59:35
  Speaker 11: suggest any criticisms?
• 59:37
  Speaker 12: I have no criticisms for the arrangements, but you have
• 59:42
  Speaker 12: for the ball. Yes.
• 59:43
  Speaker 15: I know.
• 59:44
  Speaker 11: Still, I was really obliged to keep my promise.
• 59:47
  Speaker 12: I am glad to find that a promise is with
• 59:48
  Speaker 12: you an obligation.
• 59:50
  Speaker 11: Oh come, Darcy, I understand. Set your mind at rest.
• 59:54
  Speaker 11: I'm going to London with you, although I must say
• 59:56
  Speaker 11: I do not see the necessity for it. I think
• 59:59
  Speaker 11: you are exaggerating the effect of any small attention to
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 11: mine toward Miss Bennett. However, we will clean together and
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 11: fly a common danger. Common danger, Yes, common danger, I
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 11: too have eyes. Where will you match the wit and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 11: vivacity of Miss Elizabeth Bennett.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 12: She is indeed charming, and I admit that were it
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 12: not for the inferiority of her connections, I might be
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 12: in some danger. But they form for me an inchamountable
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 12: barrier against any possible pedal.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 11: Love laughs at bars Darcy.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Darcy looks annoyed.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 11: No, I won't. It really is not fair, since it
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 11: is my fault. You would never have been put to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 11: the test if you hadn't been so good as to
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 11: stay on here with me after that.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Stopping suddenly and with an entire change from his former
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: bantering tone, he says in a hesitating manner.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 11: Darcy, do you really think you should be silent about Wickham?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 12: Decidedly, I do not choose to lay my private affairs
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 12: before the world.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 11: But the fellow was sailing under false colors. You do
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 11: not know what the result may be. I really must
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: speak of this again, Darcy, even at the risk of
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 11: offending you.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Darcy makes an impatient gesture.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 11: I am truly concerned. At the foothold. This rascal has
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 11: already gained in the Bennett family what he has failed
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 11: to accomplish. Once he may succeed and again. These young
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 11: ladies have no brother to defend.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 12: Them, neither have they the wialth to excite Wickham's cupidity.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 12: At any rate, I do not wish be the one
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 12: to enlighten the neighborhood. Besides, I understand that he has
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 12: left Perryton.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Even so, I He is interrupted by Miss Bingley, who
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: enters gaily from the drawing room.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 14: Ah, here you are, to Darcy, will you be so kind?
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: She holds out her arm for him to clasp her bracelet.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 14: Your sister, Georgiana should be her, mister Darcy. To her brother, Charles,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 14: he should have insisted on her coming.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 11: I am not in the habit of insisting with Darcy.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Laughingly, very true to Darcy, who has at length succeeded
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: in fastening the bracelet.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 14: Thank you. Looking about her, it is vastly pretty, Charles.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 14: But I am much mistaken if the sum among us
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 14: to whom a ball will be a punishment and a pleasure.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 11: If you mean Darcy, he may go to bed if
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 11: he pleases before it begins.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 14: But Charles, it was certainly more rational. Conversation. Is that
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 14: if dancing then made the odds of the day.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 11: Much more rational, my dear Caroline, But it would not
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 11: be near so much like a ball.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 10: Entering to mister Bingley, several of the carriages have arrived, sir,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 10: and the guests will soon be entering the ballroom.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: To the footmen. Very well, to Miss Bingley.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 11: Come, Caroline, we must be at our post. We will
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 11: leave Darcy to make up his mind whether he will
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 11: join us.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Later, Bingley and his sister disappear through the archway leading
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: to the ballroom. Darcy does not follow them, but walks
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: thoughtfully up and down the room. The sound of a
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: voice is heard announcing.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 10: Missus Long, the miss Long, Colonel Foster and mister Denny
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 10: A pause, Mister and Missus Golding a pause, Missus Bennett,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 10: the Missus Bennett.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Darcy stops in his walk and goes towards the ballroom archway.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Then he walks once more up.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: And down Missus King, Miss King.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Darcy again moves towards the ballroom. He lifts the curtain, hesitates,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: looks in, then disappears.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 10: Sir William and Lady Locas, Miss Locas, Mister Robinson.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: The music now begins. The stage is left empty. After
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: a short pause, Elizabeth and Charlotte appear between the curtains
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: of the ballroom archway. Peeps in, then.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 9: Enters, isn't this pretty? Come in here for a moment, Elisa.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 9: I want to tell you something.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: Following her, why did I promise to dance with mister
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: Darcy justin now? Why did I know not have more presence?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 6: Of mind.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: They sit on the bench together while they talk. The
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: guests at the back pass to and from the drawing
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: room in the ball room, and the sound of the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: music is heard faintly.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 9: I dare say you will find him very agreeable.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 6: Heaven forbid, that would be the greatest misfortune of all,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 6: to find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: Do not wish me such an evil.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 9: I wouldn't be a simpleton, Eliza. You are angry because
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 9: a Wickham is not here, But I wouldn't allow my
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 9: fancy for him to make me unpleasant in the eyes
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 9: of a man of ten times his consequence.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: My fancy for Wickham, as you choose to call it,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: is simply my sympathy for a most ill used man.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: Also the relief of meeting with good manners and a
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: good understanding after the insufferable pride of mister Darcy and
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: the stupid pomposity of that dreadful mister Collins. Charlotte starts, Oh,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 6: my dear Charlotte, I have ever thanked you half enough
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 6: for helping us to endure that man. It was so
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: good natured in you to sacrifice yourself by listening to
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: those interminable speeches of his. I am more obliged to
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: you than I can express, But oh, what a relief
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 6: it is to know that he is really gone?
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: Who has listened to this tirade? In increasing embarrassment?
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 9: Oh don't don't, Eliza, you are making it so terribly
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 9: hard for me. But but I must tell you I
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 9: am engaged to mister Collins.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth stupefied with surprise and looks at Charlotte for a
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: moment in silent and incredulous amazement. Then, with difficulty, she
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: speaks engaged, engaged to mister Collins.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, my, dear Charlotte, impossible you are joking.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 9: No, indeed, Eliza, I am in most serious, earnest. Why
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 9: should you be so surprised? Do you think it incredible
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 9: that mister Colin should be able to procure any woman's
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 9: good opinion because he was not so happy as to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 9: succeed with you?
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 6: Oh no, no, of course not. And and you must
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 6: forgive all I have just said. I couldn't possibly have imagined.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 9: No, Eliza, indeed you could not.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: She puts her hand on Elizabeth's.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 9: Shoulder, And we shall be friends still?
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: Why, of course, of course, dear Charlotte, it was only
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 6: the surprise. You know how fond I am of you.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 6: You know I wish you all imaginable happiness.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 9: Yes, I am sure of it. You must be surprised,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 9: very much surprised so lately as mister Collins was wishing
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 9: to marry you. But dear Eliza, when you have had
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 9: time to think it all over, I hope you will
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 9: be satisfied with what I have done. I am not romantic.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 9: I ask only a comfortable home. In considering mister Collin's
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 9: situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 9: happiness with him is as fair as most people can
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 9: boast on entering the marriage state, undoubtedly looking.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: At Elizabeth affectionately and wistfully, and you will come to
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: visit me sometimes.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 9: I could not bear to lose you, Eliza, surely Charlotte
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 9: looking up.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: And patting Charlotte's hand.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 6: We ought to be cousins, you know why, So we are.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Colonel Forster comes from the ballroom Lydia and Denny enter
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: from the drawing room, hurriedly, going to Charlotte.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 13: I am to have the honor of this real I believe,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 13: Miss Lucas.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, Colonel Forster.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: She goes out with Forster, leaving Elizabeth alone still seated.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Lydia and Denny approach Elizabeth.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 17: I think we are being treated abominably ill, Lizzie. It
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 17: seems that mister Wickham has gone off on business somewhere,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 17: so he will not be here at all.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: Lydia looks off towards the bar aside to Elizabeth significantly.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 15: I do not imagine his business would have called him
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 15: away just now if he had not wished to avoid
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 15: a certain gentleman.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 17: Suddenly, Why, mister Denny, I do believe the reel is
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 17: half over. I dearly love a reel. We shall miss
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 17: it altogether.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: Come.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: She drags Denny off alone.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: Well, well, the world is surely upside down. Charlotte at Collins,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: what a match?
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 12: Approaching from the ballroom, do you not feel a great invination,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 12: Miss Bennet, to see such an opportunity of dancing a real?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth makes no answer.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 12: Do you not enjoy the real? Miss Bennard?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: Looking up?
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, I heard you before, but I could not immediately
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 6: determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 6: to say, yes, that you might have the pleasure of
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: despising my taste, but I always delight in overthrowing that
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 6: kind of scheme. I have therefore made up my mind
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 6: to tell you that I do not want to dance
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 6: a reena at all. And now despise me if you.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: Dare smiling, I do not dare.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Miss Bingley enters from the ballroom with an officer. They
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: talk together. Entering from the ballroom and looking about him,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: sees Elizabeth and comes to her.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 19: May have the honor, Miss Bennett.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 6: I do not dance the real Colonel Forster.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 19: Oh, the reel is over, this is our dance.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: She goes off with Colonel Forster. Darcy remains where Elizabeth
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: leaves him, and watches her till she disappears into the ballroom.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: The officer bows and leaves Miss Bingley approaching Darcy, I.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 14: Can guess the subject.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 12: If you're every I should imagine not you.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 14: Are considering how in several would be to pass many
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 14: evenings in shirt society. Indeed, I'm quite of your opinion.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 14: I was never more annoyed the insipidity, ant it, the
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 14: noise to nothing. Yes, and yet are self importance? If
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 14: all these people, who would I give to Heya's strictures
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 14: in them?
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 12: Your conjecture is totally wrong. I assure you my mind
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 12: was more agreeably engaged. I was meditating on the very
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 12: great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 12: face of a pretty woman can bestow.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: Looking at him very meaningfully and sweetly speaks with coquetry.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 14: Indeed, and l not you tell me what lady has
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 14: the creative and inspiring such reflections.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 12: With great interpretary, Miss Elizabeth Bennett.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: Taken aback, missus Elizabeth Bennett.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 14: I'm a lastingish How long has she been such a favorite?
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 14: Prav And i'mswive?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 6: Is your joy?
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 12: That is exactly the question which I expected you to ask.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 12: A lady's imagination is very rapid. It jumps from admiration
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 12: to love, from love to metrimony in a moment. I
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 12: knew you would be wishing me joy na.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 14: If you're so serious about it, I shall consider the
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 14: matter has absolutely settled. You will have a charming mother
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 14: in law. Of course you'll always be at Pemblely with you.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 14: Perhaps you might give a few hints as to the
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 14: advantage of holding her tongue.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 12: Thank you? Have you anything else to prepare some my
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 12: domestic felicity?
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 14: With the portrait of your uncle de Tony be placed
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 14: next to your great uncle the judge. They aren't the
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 14: same profession, you know, only in different lines. As for
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 14: your Elizabeth's picture, you must not attempt to have it
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 14: taken from what painting could the justice to those beautiful eyes.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 12: It would not be easy, indeed to catch that expression.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 12: But their color and sheepe and the eyelashes so remarkably fine,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 12: might be copied.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 14: Oh I fear not.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth and Colonel Forster with others, and from the ballroom,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Miss Bennett with Lady Lucas from the drawing room. Here
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: comes to fair one seen Missus Bennett.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 14: Aunt Mamma and law is welle. Oh nothing you in
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 14: a family party.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: She goes off, laughing and mingles with the guests. Clonel
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: Forster bows and leaves Elizabeth with her mother. Bingley enters
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: with Jane from the drawing room. He sees Darcy, who
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: is standing where Missus Bingley left him, and comes to him.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 11: I thought this next dance was the one you like
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 11: so much, Darcy, let me find you a partner.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: Starting as if in a reverie.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 12: So it is thank you I have a partner.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: He goes to Elizabeth, bows, and they go into the
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: ballroom together. Missus Bennett and Missus Long follow them, looking
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: after Darcy with a smile, turns to Jane.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 11: You must be tired, miss Bennett. I propose that we
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 11: sit quietly through this dance, do you agree?
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Indeed she sits on the bench.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: It will be very pleasant looking about her. How very
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 5: prettily you have arranged all the rooms, mister Bingley.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 11: I'm so glad you think so. I feared they were
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 11: rather inconvenient for so large a party.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: Oh I find them delightful.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 11: You are always charitable, Miss Bennett. It seems to me
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 11: you always manage to see the best side of everything.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 11: I never knew you to say an ill word about
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 11: a person or a place.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 5: Smiling, Oh, I fear that it is not quite exact.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: I only try to see things in their best light.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 11: Perhaps that is just it. The rest of us rarely
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 11: try to see things in that way. So you see,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 11: I have proved my case. You are too amiable.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 5: Not for tonight, mister Bingley. Everybody is of one mind.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 5: Tonight there is but one point of view. You are
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: giving nothing but pleasure.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 11: I wish it were so, But dear miss Bennett, I
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 11: wish to tell you. I must tell you.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: He is interrupted by the people coming in again from
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: the dance. Darcy and Elizabeth enter with Sir William Lucas
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: and others. Bingley and Jane rise from their seats and
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: walks slowly towards the back of the room. Darcy escorts
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth to a seat and stands by her. Both are
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: silent for a moment.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: Your turn to say something, now, mister Darcy. I talked
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 6: about the dance, and you ought to make some kind
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 6: of remark on the size of the rooms or the
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 6: number of couples.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 12: Smiling, I assure you I will say whatever you wish.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 6: Very well. That reply will do for the present. Perhaps
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 6: by and by I may observe that private balls are
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 6: much pleasanter than public ones.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 12: Do you talk by rule?
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 6: Then sometimes one must speak a little, as you know,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 6: and yet for the advantage of some conversation ought to
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 6: be so arranged that they may have the trouble of
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 6: saying as little as possible.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 12: Are you consulting your own feelings in the prisoner case,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 12: or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 6: Both? For I have always seen a great similarity in
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 6: the turn of our minds. We are each of an
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 6: unsocial taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak unless we expect to
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 6: say something that will amaze the whole room and be
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 6: handed down to posterity with all the accla of a proverb.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 12: This is no very striking resemblance of your own character.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 12: I am sure how near it may be to mine.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 12: I cannot pretend to say you think it a faithful portrait.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 12: Undoubtedly I shall.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 6: Not decide on my own performance.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: There is a short silence, then, as if with an effort,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth speaks.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 6: I am surprised not to see mister Wickham here tonight.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: I find that he is a great favorite with the officers.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 6: He has made many friends among them with great heart.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 12: Here mister Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 12: may ensure his making friends. Whether he may be equally
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 12: capable of retaining them is less certain.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 6: He has been so unlucky as to lose your friendship,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 6: and in a manner which he is likely to suffer
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 6: from all his life.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: They both are silent, coming up to them all urbanly
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: and smiles.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 15: What a charming amusement for young people. This dancing is
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 15: mister Darcy. I consider it one of the first refinements
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 15: of Polish.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 12: Societies, Sir, and it has the advantage also of being
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 12: in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 12: Every savage can dance smiling.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 15: Do you often dance at Sir James's?
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 12: Never, Sir, you have a house in town.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 15: I conclude.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: Mister Darcy bews, but does not speak.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 15: I had once some thoughts of fixing in town myself,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 15: but did not feel quite certain that the of London
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 15: would agree with Lady Lucas.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: Darcy beughs in silence. Again. Elizabeth is mused.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 15: But I must not further interrupt you, Sir. I only
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 15: wish to tell you once more how highly gratified I
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 15: have been by your superior dancing. Allow me also to
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 15: say that your fair partner does not disgrace you. It
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 15: is a great pleasure to see you together. I must
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 15: hope too, to have this pleasure often repeated, especially when
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 15: a certain desirable event my dear miss.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Eliza, glancing at Bingley and Jane, who are talking earnestly
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: together at the back of the.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 15: Scene, shall take place. What congratulations will then flow in.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 15: But let me not interrupt you. You will not thank me,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 15: mister Darcy, for detaining you from the bewitching converse of
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 15: that young lady, whose bright eyes are also embrading me.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: Murmurs to himself. So, looking in earnestly at Bingley and Jane,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: he seems much impressed by what Sir William has said.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth notices this, recovering himself, Darcy turns to her again.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 12: So William's interruption has made me forget what we were
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 12: talking of.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: I do not think we were speaking at all, Sir
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 6: William could not have interrupted any two people who had
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 6: less to say for themselves. We have tried two or
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 6: three subjects already without success. And what we are to
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 6: talk of next? I cannot imagine, smiling.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 12: What think you of books?
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 6: Books?
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 6: No, I am sure we never read the same, or
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 6: not with the same feelings.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 12: I am sorry you think, sir, But if that be
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 12: the case, there can at least be no want of subject.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 12: We may compare our different opinions of them.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 6: No, I cannot talk of books at my head is
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 6: always full of something else.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 12: The present always occupies you in such scenes, does it?
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 15: Yes?
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 6: Always? I remember hearing you once say mister Darcy, that
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 6: you hardly ever forgave that your resentment, once created, was unappeasable.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 6: You are very cautious, I suppose as to its being created,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 6: I am, and never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 12: I hope not.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 6: It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 6: opinion to be secure of judging properly.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 12: At first, may I ask to what these questions.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 6: Lead merely to the illustration of your character? I am
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 6: trying to make it out, and.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 12: What is your success?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: Shaking her head.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 6: I do not get on at all. I have such
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 6: different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 12: I can readily believe that reports may vary greatly with
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 12: respect to me, And I could wish, Miss Ben, that
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 12: you were not to sketch my character at the present moment,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 12: as there is reason to fear that the performance would
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 12: reflect no credit on either.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 6: But if I do not take your likeness now, I
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 6: may never have another opportunity.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 12: I would, by no means to spend any pleasure of yours.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: Miss Bingley interests from the ballroom. She comes directly to
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: Darcy and Elizabeth.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 14: Oh, mister Darcy, would you be so good as to
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 14: go to Charles. He wishes very much to consult you
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 14: about cera the table arrangements. You will find him in
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 14: a dining parlor, that is, if Miss Bennett will permit you.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, certainly, Darcy bows and goes out to Elizabeth after
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: a moment's silence.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 14: So, Miss Bennett, I heard that you are quite delighted.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 14: Did George Wickham? He must have told you all a
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 14: pretty tale As to missus Darcy is using him ill,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 14: It is perfectly false. I do not know the particulars,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 14: but I do know that George Wickham has treated mister
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 14: Darle in a most infamous manner. His coming into the
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 14: county at all is a most insolent thing. I feel
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 14: very strongly on this point, Miss Bennett, as mister Darcy's
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 14: interests are so intimately associated with our own.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: She watches Elizabeth.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 14: We hope Miss Georgiana Darcy may someday be my sister,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 14: my brother Marci greatly.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 17: Ah.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 14: Yes, and sorefore we resent this falsehood and dispresumption the
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 14: part of George wickhambe But really, considering his descent, we
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 14: cannot expect much better. He has evidently forgotten to tell
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 14: you that he's the son of old Wickham Steward, to
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 14: delight mister Darcy.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 6: His guilt and his descent appear, by your account, to
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: be the same. I have heard you accuse him of
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 6: nothing worse than of being the son of mister Darcy Stewart,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 6: and of that I can assure you. He informed me
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 6: himself with a sneer.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 14: Oh, I beg your pardon. Excuse my interference, It is
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 14: kindly meant.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 6: She goes out, insolent. Girl, You are much mistaken if
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 6: you expect to influence me by such a paltry attack
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 6: as this. I see nothing in it but your own
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 6: willful ignorance and the malice of mister Darcy.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: Footmen now come in with small tables, which they place
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: about the stage. Bingley comes in and directs them. Darcy
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: follows him to Elizabeth, Jane, his sister, and others who
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: have entered.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 11: I thought it would be pleasant to have some of
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 11: the tables here.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: To Jane.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 11: We must have places together with some muscle.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: All seat themselves at the table. On one side are
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: seated Darcy, Elizabeth, Bingley, and Jane. A little behind them
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: are Miss Bingley with Colonel Forster, Charlotte Lucas with an
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: officer at the table. On the opposite side is Missus Bennet,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: with Sir William and Lady Lucas. Behind them are more
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: tables at which other guests are seated. Entering with Denny,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: much excited goes to Missus Bennet.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 17: Mama, have you heard the news. Mister Denny has just
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 17: told me that the regiment is to leave Meryton and
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 17: go to Brighton. Good heavens, what is to become of us?
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: Mamma sympathetically?
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: Are they really going? Well, my love, it is too bad.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: I know how you feel. I'm sure I cried for
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: two days together when Colonel Miller's regiment went away five
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: and twenty years ago. I thought I should have broken
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: my heart.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 17: I am sure I shall break mine, Mamma.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: Might we not all go to Brighton?
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: Oh? If we only could? But I fail. Your father
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: will not hear of it.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 17: Oh, Papa is so disagreeable. I am sure a little
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 17: sea bathing would set me up forever, wouldn't it, mister Denny?
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 7: Surely, Miss Ladia, Oh, you must manage it in some way.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: They move off and take their places at one of
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: the tables. Looking after them.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: Well, Lady Lucas, it is hard for a lively young
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: girl like my Lydia to be cooped up in a
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: place where there is so little going on. However, looking
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: at Bingley and Jane, we are not likely to have
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: it so very dull in the future.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: And aloud whispered to lady Lucas, you know what I mean,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: nudging her and laughing Jane and Bingley. Ah, indeed, with
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: importance in a still louder tone.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, it is quite settled. Such a charming young
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: man a netherfield, only three miles from Longbourn, and Jane's
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: marrying will be a fine thing for my other girls.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: They will be sure to meet other rich men who
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: will fall in love with them. Well's heard.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: The beginning of this conversation makes a pretext to go
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: to arrange a rather scarf, and says, in low tones, Oh.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 6: Mamma, be careful, I beg mister Darcy, can hear you?
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: What is mister Darcy to me? Pray that I should
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: be afraid of him? I am sure we owe him
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: no such particular civility as to be obliged to say
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: nothing he may not like to hear.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: For Heaven's sake, Mamma, speak lower. What advantage can it
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 6: be to you to offend mister Darcy. You will never
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 6: recommend yourself to his friend by so doing.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: That is enough, Lizzie, I think I can take care
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: of myself. I never knew before that it was a
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: crime to speak to one's friend about what everybody can
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: see plainly enough. Who has eyes in his head?
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: Turning to Sir William, did you, Sir William smiling.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 6: Our friends usually have very sharp eyes for what is
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 6: going on, Missus Bennett.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 15: Significantly, I have indeed sometimes expected that you would observe
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 15: what has been going on in our household.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: Of late going on? What has been going on, Sir
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: William with an important air.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 15: It is only this, Missus Bennett, that Lady Lucas and
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 15: myself have to ask your Congress on our very great
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 15: satisfaction in a recent engagement of our daughter Charlotte.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: Charlotte engaged why who in the world is going to
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: marry her?
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: Sir William draws himself up with offended dignity. Lady Lucas Bridles.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 15: The gentleman whom my daughter has honored with her hand
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 15: is your husband's cousin, Mister.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: Collins, rising enraged and amazement.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: Mister Collins, marry your Charlotte. Good lord, Sir William, how
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: can you tell such a story? Do you not know
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: that mister Collins is going to marry my Lissie, Oh, oh,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: one of my other girls.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 17: Well, really, missus Bennett, what.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 15: I have told you is quite true. Nevertheless, Missus Bennett,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 15: the whole matter was settled before mister Collins returned to Huntsford.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 15: I am sorry we are not to receive your good wishes.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: Oh but you are, Sir William. Charlotte has already told
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 6: me all about her engagement, and we shall be most
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 6: happy to welcome her as a cousin.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: Mullified in with gallantry.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 15: Thank you, miss Elizabeth. I am sure other congratulations will
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 15: shortly be in order.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: He glances significantly at Darcy. Elizabeth draws herself up. Sir William, smiling,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: makes a little bow, then turns to the table where
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: he and Lady Lucas busying themselves with their supper.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: To Elizabeth, So Charlotte has told you, Hush, I don't
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: believe a word of it. Oh, Mamma, I'm sure mister
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: Collins has been taken in. Well, I trust they will
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: never be happy together, and I hope the match will
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: be broken off.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: Mamma turning on Elizabeth in a rage.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: And you are the course of this whole MISCHIEFU Lizzie,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: I think I have been barbarously used by you.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: All.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: While this conversation has been going on, the other guests
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: have been taking their supper. Colonel Forster now rises with
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: a glass of wine in his hand.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, the buzz of conversation ceases.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 13: Ladies and gentlemen, I should like to propose the health
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 13: of mister Bingley.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 20: Mister, raising his glass to mister Bingley, may the pleasure
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 20: which he has given us all tonight be but a
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 20: foretaste of the future happiness which he will both receive
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 20: and given this community.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 5: Mister Bingley, mister Bley, all.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Drink as Bingley bows.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 15: And may I be allowed to still for express the
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 15: sentiments of this community by proposing another toast, in which
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 15: I am sure you will all join me with.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: Enthusiasm, raising his glass to.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 15: The Master of Netherfield. May he retain that title from
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 15: his present fortunate youth to his future green and honored
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 15: old age.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: Drinking mister Bingley, will mister.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 11: Rising ladies and gentlemen friends here. I really cannot tell
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 11: you how much I am touched by the very kind
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 11: words of Colonel Forrester and Sir William, and I only
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 11: wish that I deserved them.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: Embarrassed and looking towards Darcy, who with folded arms is
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: staring at the.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 11: Ceiling, no I do not. I did not like to
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 11: speak of such a painful thing on an occasion like this,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 11: And so I have told no one of the fact
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 11: that I'm about to leave Netherfield.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: Still more ill at ease.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 11: Yes, so there's a very sudden decision. But important interests
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 11: have made it necessary for me to leave Netherfield.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 15: But only for a time, mister Bingley. Let us hope
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 15: it will only be a temporary separation.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: Why, surely, mister Bingley, you will be back again very soon.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 11: No, no, I'm afraid my returning at all is extremely uncertain.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 11: In fact, I expect to leave Netherfield permanently.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: Great consternation. Jane looks down. Elizabeth looks at Darcy. Miss
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: Bingley has a triumphant smile.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 19: Oh my dear mister Bingley.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 15: This is indeed a calamity to Elizabeth.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: Good Lord Liscie poor Jane.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 6: What Oh hush, Mamma looks again at Darcy, who remains
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 6: perfectly calm throughout this commotion.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: This time the sight of him seems to make Bingley
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: somewhat angry, and he pulls himself together and speaks in
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: a firmer tone and in a more cheerful manner.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 11: But, my friends, nobody knows what may happen. We shall
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 11: undoubtedly all meet again sometime. And meanwhile, you must not
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 11: let what I have said spoil your pleasure.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: The music is now heard again in the ballroom.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 11: There is the music. We must have another dance together.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: There is a general movement among the guests. Those at
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: the back of the room begin to go into the ballroom.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: To Jane, Colonel Forster and others near.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 11: Him, let us make up a set here. I think
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 11: there will be room.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 19: Capital idea.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: The footmen remove the tables.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 14: Oh yes, capital, with meaning to Darcy, do what you think, sir,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 14: mister Darcy.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: Darcy bows stiffly, without speaking.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 19: Miss Bingley may have the pleasure.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: She bows, looks daggers at Darcy, and takes her place
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: in the dance.
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  Speaker 11: To Jane, Miss Bennett, will you grant me the happiness Darcy.
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  Speaker 1: Gives him a look which Elizabeth sees.
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  Speaker 11: The final happiness of my stay at Netherfield.
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  Speaker 1: Curtsies a trimmer in her voice, thank you. They begin
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  Speaker 1: to form a set, with Miss Bingley and Colonel forster
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: Lydia and Denny crossing to Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 12: May I have the honor, Miss Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at him with Frank Hottier.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, mister Darcy, I am indisposed.
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  Speaker 1: Darcy bows, reddens and crosses to the other side of
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: the room. Music begins amid embarrassed astonishment Sir William and
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: Charlotte lucas phil the quadrille set. As the dance commences,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth and Darcy, standing at either side of the dancers,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: exchange a glance of keenness. Pride and Prejudice end of
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: Act two, Act three A Pride and Prejudice a play
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  Speaker 1: by Mary Keith Medbearon McKay. This is LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. The parlor
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  Speaker 1: of mister Collins personage at Huntsford. At the back of
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: the room is an open door. This door leads directly
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: into the garden beyond, which is seen through an opening
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: in the trees, and the park opposite prospect of rosings
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: the residence of Lady Catherine de Burgh, a handsome modern
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: building on rising ground. A wide cottage window, also at
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: the back of the room gives a plain view of
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: the passerbys. On either side of the parlor is a
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: door leading to the other parts of the house. Elizabeth
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: is discovered standing at the open door and looking up
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: at someone outside, who is evidently climbing to the trellis outside.
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  Speaker 6: Is this the cluster you wish, Miss Bennett, No, Kenonel Fitzwilliam.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 6: Those are buds, the one's highest still there by the eaves.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth laughingly watches Colonel Fitzwilliam until he appears with a
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: cluster of half opened roses, which he presents to her
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: in a gallant air, taking the roses and putting them
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: in her girdle.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, may not I have one as my reward,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 10: Miss Bennett.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 6: Is not accomplishment its own reward.
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  Speaker 10: And is not the power to be generous the highest
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 10: reward that can be given to any accomplishment.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, surely, and so you would have to be generous
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 6: and get me some more roses. Then we should each
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 6: of us have to invent new speeches, and so we
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 6: should never be done till we were ready to print
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 6: a phrase book. However, you have certainly won your rose.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: She gives it to him.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 10: Thank you. That phrase book is a capital idea, Miss Bennett.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 10: Nothing could please me better than just such an occupation.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 10: It would really be a charity. For Darcy is such
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 10: a dull fellow these days that really I don't know
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 10: what to do with myself.
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  Speaker 6: But we should hardly have the time for such a project.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 6: You say that you and mister Darcy are to leave
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 6: Lady Catherine on Saturday.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 10: Yes, if Darcy doesn't put it off again. He has
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 10: already paid our aunt a much longer visit than ever before.
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  Speaker 10: I am at his disposal. You know, he arranges the
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 10: business just as he pleases.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 6: I do not know anybody who seems more to enjoy
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 6: the power of doing what he pleases than mister Darcy.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 10: He likes to have his own way very well, we all.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 10: It is only that he has better means of having
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 10: it than many others. Looking at his watch, I suppose
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 10: I ought to go and look for him. Now I
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 10: expected to find him here with a meaning smile, as
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 10: not unfrequently happens. But since he is not, he probably
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 10: expects me to meet him at the cross roads.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 6: I imagine your cousin brought you down with him, chiefly
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 6: for the sake of having somebody at his disposal. I
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 6: wonder he does not marry to secure a lasting convenience
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 6: of that kind. But perhaps his sister does as well
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 6: for the present, and as she is under his sole care,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 6: he may do what he likes with her.
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  Speaker 10: No, that is an advantage which he must share with me.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 10: I am joined with him in the guardianship of miss Darcy.
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  Speaker 6: Are you indeed? And pray? What sort of guardian do
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 6: you make? Does your charge give you much trouble? Young
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 6: ladies of her age are sometimes a little difficult to manage,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 6: and if she has the true Darcy spirit, she may
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 6: like to have her own way.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: Colonel Fitzwilliam looks at Elizabeth very suspiciously as she makes
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: this last remark.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 10: Why what, why do you suppose Miss Darcy is likely
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 10: to give us uneasiness?
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  Speaker 6: Miss Bennett, Oh, nothing at all. You need not be frightened.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 6: I never had any harm of her. She is a
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 6: great favorite with a lady of my acquaintance, Miss Bingley.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 6: I think I have heard you say that you knew
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 6: Miss Bingley.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 10: I know her a little. Her brother is a pleasant,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 10: gentlemanlike man. He is a great friend of Darcy's.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 6: Oh. Yes, mister Darcy is uncommonly kind to mister Bingley
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 6: and takes a prodigious dey of care of him.
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  Speaker 10: Care of him. Yes, I really believe Darcy does take
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 10: care of him. From something he has told me, I
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 10: have reason to think Bingley very much.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: Indebted to him stopping.
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  Speaker 10: But I ought to beg his pardon, for I have
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 10: no right to suppose that Bingley was the person meant.
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  Speaker 6: What is it you mean?
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 10: It is a circumstance which, of course Darcy would not
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 10: wish to be generally known, because if it were to
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 10: get round to the lady's family, it would be an
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 10: unpleasant thing.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 6: You may depend upon my not mentioning it.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 10: And remember that I haven't much reason for supposing it
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 10: to be Bingley. What he told me was merely this,
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 10: that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 10: from the inconvenience of a most imprudent marriage. But without
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 10: names or any other particulars, and I only suspected it
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 10: to be Bingley, from believing him to be the kind
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 10: of young man to get into a scrape of that.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: Sort trying to suppress her feeling.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 6: Did mister Darcy give you his reasons for this interference?
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 10: I understood that there were some very strong objections against
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 10: the lady.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: Indeed trying to speak calmly.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 6: And what arts did he use to separate them?
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: Smiling?
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 10: He did not talk to me of his own arts.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 10: He only told me what I have now told you.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 6: Why was your cousin to be the judge you.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 10: Are rather disposed to call his interference officious?
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 6: Growing excited, I do not see what right mister Darcy
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 6: had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination. Why,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 6: upon his own judgment alone, mister Darcy was to determine
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 6: in what manner his friend.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: Was to be happy recovering herself.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 6: But as we know none of the particulars, it is
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 6: not fair to condemn him. It is not to be
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 6: supposed that there is much affection in the case.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 10: That is not an unnatural surmise. And I believe Darcy
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 10: told me that he did not think that the lady
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 10: at least was very deeply concerned in the matter. However,
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 10: to lessen the affection on either side is to lessen
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 10: the honor of my cousin's triumph.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 6: Very sadly, your cousin's triumph.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: Greatly excited, She is about to continue when Charlotte's voice
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: is heard outside.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, mister Darcy, I think I saw Colonel Fitzwilliam go
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 9: up the garden path a few moments ago, protesting. Oh no,
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 9: mister Darcy, you are too kind, really.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 12: Outside, pray allow me.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: Charlotte enters, accompanied by Darcy, who has care in a
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: basket of eggs. She wears a garden hat and gloves.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 5: Ah, here he is.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 9: Good morning, Colonel Fitzwilliam to Darcy, pray, let me have
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 9: the basket now, mister Darcy.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: Darcy gives Charlotte the basket and then turns to Elizabeth.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 12: Good morning, miss Bennett.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth returns Darcy's greeting with a self consciousness which does
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: not escape his notice, but the motive of which he mistakes.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: Darcy gives a quick glance from Elizabeth to Colonel Fitzwilliam
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: as he turns to speak to the latter.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 12: Ah, if it's William, I thought I might find you
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 12: here lightly.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I have been so fortunate as to secure some
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 10: of missus Collins's early roses for miss Bennett in surprise.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 9: Really have they already opened?
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: Who as this time recovered her self possession.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 6: A very few of them? But Colonel Fitzwilliam is obliged
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 6: to climb very near to the sun to get me these.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: She looks admiringly upon the flowers as she speaks, showing
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: the rose which Elizabeth has given him.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 10: And you see I have my reward, smiling faintly.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 12: Colonel Fitzwilliam might not have won his price too easily,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 12: Miss Bennet, had there been others in the field.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 6: Ah, no, mister Darcy, I cannot lessen Colonel Fitzwilliam's achievement
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 6: by admitting any such possibility.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 10: Gallantly, thank you, Miss Bennett.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: Darcy turns away with an unconscious look of chagrin.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 9: Well, surely my roses will have to bloom their prettiest
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 9: this season in return for all the attention they have
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 9: received to the young men. Will not you be seated, gentlemen?
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 12: Thanks no, Missus Collins, I merely stopped for Colonel Fitzwilliam.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 12: But perhaps his rose gathering has caused him to abandon
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 12: that project of taking a walk together this morning.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 10: By no means, Darcy, that pleasure has only been deferred.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 12: Very good, then we will go at once, if missus
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 12: Collins and miss Bennett will pardon me this hasty cold.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 9: Certainly, mister Darcy.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth also absentmindly murmurs her asset, for which Darcy lingers
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: with vague uneasiness. Before departing with Miss William, Charlotte looks
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: at Elizabeth curiously, then calls to the little maid.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 9: Who enters, Martha, take these eggs to the pantry. Do
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 9: not disturb them.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 5: Very well, ma'am.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: She curtseyes and goes out, taking off her hat and gloves.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 9: Now, Eliza, we must get to our work and have
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 9: a comfortable chat. You have been here nearly two weeks,
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 9: and we really haven't had a good talk yet.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 6: Getting out her embroidery, Yes, you promised me a quiet visit, Charlotte,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 6: but I find you are more lively here than we
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 6: are at Longbourn.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: The two ladies sit at the table with their embroidery.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 9: But how could I have anticipated the arrival here of
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 9: two very attentive young.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: Gentlemen smiling at Elizabeth.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 9: It is really quite a surprising coincidence, or else mister
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 9: Darcy has timed his visit to his aunt very cleverly.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 9: As to these daily visits to the parsonage, you may
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 9: be sure I do not take to myself the credit
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 9: of them. Neither of these young gentlemen would ever come
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 9: so often to see me. I have to thank you,
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 9: Eliza for this civility with a little temper.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 6: You may thank a lack of occupation on their part.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 6: You know very well my opinion of mister Darcy.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 9: Yes, you have often expressed it. I wish I were
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 9: as well informed of mister Darcy's opinion of Eliza.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 6: When you know the one, you know the other, they
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 6: are identical.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 9: Well, perhaps under the circumstances, that is the most satisfactory
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 9: condition of things. And do we hold the same opinion
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 9: of Colonel Fitzwilliam tossing her.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 6: Head, Oh, Colonel Fitzwilliam, looking.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: At Elizabeth sharply, and after a short silence.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 5: And so Jane is once more at home after her
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 5: visit in London, and Lydia has gone to Brighton. After all,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 5: how did she ever manage to persuade your father.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, Lydia was so to tell upon it that she
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 6: and Mamma gave my father no peace till they had
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 6: teased him to consent. But I am very sorry. Lydia
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 6: is too foolish, too ignorant, and wilful to be trusted
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 6: away from home. I only hope that no harm will
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 6: come of it.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 9: And is mister Wickham still with the regiment?
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 6: Yes, he went with it to Brighton.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 9: I hear that he is thinking of marrying Miss King,
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 9: since she has just received a legacy of ten thousand pounds.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 9: I should be sorry to think that our friend was mercenary.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 6: A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 6: those elegant decorums which other people may observe. If Miss
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 6: King does not object to it, why should we Her.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 9: Not objecting does not justify him.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 6: Well have it as you choose. He shall be mercenary
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 6: and she shall be foolish. Mister Wickham's worst fault, after all,
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 6: is his power of being agreeable. Thank heaven me, both
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 6: of us know some men who haven't one agreeable quality.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 6: Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 9: Well well, Eliza, that speech savors a little of disappointment.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, anything you please?
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 9: Changing the subject, and you say that Jane is not
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 9: in her usual spirits, Yes, and she is looking poorly. Yes,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 9: very did she see much of the Bingleys in London?
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 6: She saw nothing of them. Oh, Charlotte, I have just
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 6: had all my suspicions verified.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 9: Your suspicions.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 6: Yes, there has been an arrangement in all of this.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 6: Mister Bingley has been kept away from Jane.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: By stops, suddenly, looks up curiously, then speaks quickly.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 9: Don't imagine any such nonsense, Eliza. A young man like
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: mister Bingley so easily falls in love with a pretty
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 9: girl for a few weeks, and when accident separates them,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 9: so easily forgets her that this sort of inconstancy is
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 9: very frequent.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 6: We do not suffer from accident, Charlotte. A young man
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 6: and of independent fortune does not suddenly decide of his
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 6: own free will to think no more of a girl
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 6: with whom he was violently in love.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 9: But were they so violently in love?
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 6: Yes? I never saw a more promising incarnation. Why mister
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 6: Bingley would talk to no one else, would look at
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 6: no one else, is not general incivility. The very essence
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 6: of love.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 9: Smiling it is usually a good test. But if Jane
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 9: did not return his affection, it really did not seem
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 9: to me that there was anything violent in Jane's attitude.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 9: I could never see that she showed any extreme affection
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 9: for Bingley.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 6: Well, I know that Jane was very much in love
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 6: with him, and that she showed her affection as much
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 6: as her nature would allow. If Bingley didn't see it,
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 6: he must have been a simpleton. No, the real trouble
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 6: was that Jane didn't see him often enough, perhaps to
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 6: make her understand his character.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 9: Oh, if Jane were married to Bingley tomorrow, I should
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 9: think she had as good a chance of happiness as
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 9: if she were studying him for a twelvemonth. It is
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 9: far better to know as lie tell as possible of
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 9: the person with whom you are to pass your life demurely.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 6: In some cases that is undoubtedly true.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: Appears at the garden door. He wears a wide brimmed
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: hat and carries a hoe, also a large basket.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 8: He looks in ah a very charming domestic picture.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: Taking a bunch of radishes from the basket, he speaks
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: to Charlotte.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 8: My dear, I have found some fine early radishes. I
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 8: thought it would be a graceful attention on your part
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 8: to send some of these to Miss de Burgh.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: Sits upon the chair near the doorway.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 9: I fear the apothecary might object.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: True, they might not be suitable, but looking at them proudly.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 8: They are very fine radishes.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: To Elizabeth.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 8: Miss Elizabeth, I am very successful in my gardening. I
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 8: consider the work I do in my garden to be
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 8: one of my most respect spectable pleasures. Lady Catherine is
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 8: always ready to encourage me in it, and my dear
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 8: Charlotte is ever willing that I should leave her side
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 8: for the sake of this healthful exercise.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: Looking at the radishes again.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 8: It is indeed a pity that mister Burgh is not
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 8: well enough to enjoy them. My dear Charlotte has doubtless
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 8: told you, Miss Elizabeth, of the alliance which is in
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 8: prospect between mister Burgh and mister Darcy. This extreme delicacy
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 8: of constitution would seem to be the only bar to
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 8: their happiness.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 6: Yes, Charlotte has told me that mister Berg is sickly,
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 6: she will make mister Darcy a very proper wife.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: Charlotte looks anxiously at mister Collins as Elizabeth says this,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: but he has gazing at the door and does not
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: seem to notice the remark.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 8: I hope you are pleased with Kent, miss.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 6: Elizabeth, very much, Mister Collins.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 8: I do not think the Kingdom can both the grander
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 8: scene than the one now spread before our eyes, This garden,
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 8: that park with rosings in the distance. Do not you
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 8: think my dear Charlotte is most fortunately placed, Miss Elizabeth.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 6: Most fortunately, mister Collins, And when you.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 8: Have seen Lady Catherine, you will be more deeply impressed.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 8: I am sure we can hardly expect her to call
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 8: upon you. This illness of mister Burgh would prevent it,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 8: and in any case it would be an act of
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 8: extreme condescension on her part. But I am quite confident
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 8: that you will receive an invitation to drink tea of
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 8: a Sunday evening with her, after mister Darcy and his
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 8: cousin are gone, of course, and we may later have
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 8: an invitation to dinner. Although I would not for the
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 8: world arouse in you false hopes which may be shattered.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: Enters in great excitement, oh missus Collins.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 5: Lady Catherine's carriage is turning into the lane, and she is.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: In it, rising in great excitement.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 8: Lady Catherine at this hour, what amazing condescension.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: He turns in a helpless manner to Charlotte.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 8: But, my dear, I am quite unprepared my habiliments. I
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 8: would not be wanting in respect. What shall I do?
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: Hurriedly putting up her work and giving her hat and
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: gloves to the maid.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 9: Go make yourself ready, mister Collins. We will do the same.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: Charlotte pushes Collins gently towards the door.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, but dis implement.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: He holds out the hoe, give it to Martha. Mister
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: Collins hastily gives the hod to the maid and then
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: goes out. He instantly returns, however, and again appeals in
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: distressed tones to his wife, holding out the basket and.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 5: These reddishes, My dear Martha, take the radishes from mister Collins. Yes, ma'am.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: The may try to hold at once basket, hoe, hat
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: and gloves. As she stands in the corner, open mouthed,
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: again emerging from the door.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 8: Do not make yourself uneasy about your own apparel, miss Elizabeth.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 8: Lady Catherine is far from requiring that elegance in us,
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 8: which becomes herself and daughter.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 9: I oh, do go, mister Collins. Lady Catherine will be
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 9: here in an instant.
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: She shuts the door on mister Collins greatly amused at
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: all this excitement.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 6: Are you going to make any change in your dress? Charlotte?
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 6: Do you wish me to do so?
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 11: Well?
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 9: Eliza, if you wouldn't mind, I should like you to
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 9: put on your sprigged muslin. In spite of what mister
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 9: Collins says, I know it will please him. I have
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 9: no time to change. Is my cap straight?
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 9: Here?
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: She is to the maid, who stands staring with her
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: arms full.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 5: Why Martha, are you still there?
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 6: Go go?
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: She bustles the maid out of one door that runs
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: through the other, calling.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 5: Her husband mister Collins, mister Collins.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: She then rushes into the garden, followed immediately by mister Collins,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: in the same state of excitement. Elizabeth, as she looks
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: after them, is convulsed with laughter.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 6: So at last, her high and only Mightiness, no tram as, Elizabeth,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 6: Now is the time for all your courage.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: She runs laughing out of the room. Sounds are heard,
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: and Lady Catherine appears escorted up the path by Charlotte
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: and Collins as she reaches the door.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 16: You keep too many hens here, Missus Collins. There is
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 16: just a certain number which are profitable. Beyond that there
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 16: is waste.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: Lady Catherine sits on the sofa.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 16: A clergyman's wife should set an example of thrift. You
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 16: should have asked my advice.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 8: Missus Collins, will, in the future regulate her poultryard according
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 8: to your directions, Lady Catherine, if you will be so
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 8: condescending as to give them, Yes.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Lady Catherine.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 8: Will your ladyship not take some refreshment?
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 5: Oh yes, let me fetch you a cup of tea.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 16: No, no, I wish nothing to mister Collins. But you
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 16: may go, mister Collins and see if Jones is walking
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 16: the horses up and down. I do not trust Jones.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 8: With great pleasure, your ladyship.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: Mister Collins goes out to Charlotte.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 16: I thought you had a visitor, Missus Collins.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 9: Yes, your ladyship, I have. It is my friend, Miss
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 9: Elizabeth Bennett. She is a cousin of mister Collins and
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 9: a neighbor of ours in Hertfordshire.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 16: I have heard about her fits William says she is
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 16: a very genteel, pretty kind of girl.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 9: Indeed she is, Lady Catherine.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 16: Well, where is she?
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 9: She has gone to make a little change in her
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 9: dress before presenting herself to your ladyship.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 16: Oh, very proper, very proper.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 9: I am delighted to hear that mister Burgh is better.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 9: Lady Catherine, Yes, thank.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 16: You, she is very greatly improved.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: After a slight pause with impatience.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 16: Well, miss Bennett takes her time.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 9: I am sure she will be here in a moment.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth enters. Oh, here she is presenting Elizabeth.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 9: Lady Catherine, Miss Elizabeth Bennett.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth curtseys, without leaving her seat, looks Elizabeth over from
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: head to foot.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 16: Oh, how do you do, Miss Bennett. You are younger
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 16: than I thought, smiling, Indeed, you know my nephew, mister Darcy.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 6: Yes, I met him in Hertfordshire. Hm.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 16: And you know Colonel fitzwilliam.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 6: I have only met Colonel Fitzwilliams since coming here.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 16: Humph, has your governess left you?
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 6: My sisters and I have never had a governess, Madam,
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 6: No governess.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 16: I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 16: have been quite a slave to your education.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 6: I assure you she was not. Lady Catherine.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 16: Then, who taught you without a governess? You must have
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 16: been neglected.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 6: Such of us as wished to learn, never wanted the means, Madam.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 16: But if I had known your mother I should have
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 16: advised her most strenuously to engage a governess. I should
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 16: have seen to it myself. To Charlotte, go on with
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 16: your work, Missus Collins, a clergyman's wife should set an
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 16: example of industry.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: Looking at Charlotte's embroidery with disapproval, I.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 16: Will send you some more of the parish petticoats to Heim,
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 16: Missus Collins. To Elizabeth, go on with your work, Miss Bennett.
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 16: Young ladies should never be idle.
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: Both Elizabeth and Charlie go on with their embroidery.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 16: Pray, what is your age, Miss Bennett?
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 6: I am not one and twenty?
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 16: You have sisters, have you not?
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 6: Yes? Madam?
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 16: Are any of them out all?
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 6: Madam?
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 16: What all at once? Very odd out? Before the oldest
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 16: is married?
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 6: Really, Madam, I think it would be very hard on
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 6: the younger sisters not to have their share of society
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 6: because the eldest one does not happen to be married.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 6: That would hardly be likely to promote sisterly affection or
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 6: delicacy of mind.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 16: Upon my word, you give your opinion very decidedly. For
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 16: so young a person, your sisters may be married before you.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 16: You must not be too ambitious A good many young
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 16: girls have lost their chances through being too ambitious.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: We'll get at a large picture on the wall, then
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: pointing to.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 16: It, Missus Collins, I suppose you have shown Miss Bennett
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 16: the print of Pemberley at mister Darcy's place.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 9: Yes, Lady Catherine.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 16: Pemberley is one of the finest places in England. My
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 16: daughter Anne is very fond of it, which is fortunate
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 16: since she will probably spend most of her life there.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 9: Most fortunate in your ladyship to Elizabeth.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 16: You see my nephew here often, Miss Bennett mischievously.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 6: Yes, very often, Lady Catherine.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 16: Well idle young gentlemen often make very foolish use of
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 16: their time. My daughter mister Ball is unfortunately not able
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 16: to accompany mister Darcy in his walks as often as
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 16: both of them could desire entering.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 8: I think your ladyship's mind may be quite at rest
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 8: about the horses. Jones seems to have them well in hand.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 16: I am glad you have come back, mister Collins. I'm
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 16: going to ask you and Missus Collins to go and
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 16: see the new cottages with me. I shall take you
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 16: in the carriage to Charlotte. You had better put on
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 16: a plane bonnet, Missus Collins.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 9: By all means, your ladyship She goes out.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 16: Are you quite ready to go, mister Collins.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 8: Oh, assuredly, your ladyship quite.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 16: To Elizabeth, Miss Bennett, I should advise you to write
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 16: to your family while we are gone.
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: Charlotte returns on her bonnet and mantle. Lady Catherine looks
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: her over.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 16: Yes, that will do very well.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 9: To Elizabeth, we shall not be gone very long, Eliza.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 16: I'm not sure of that, Missus Collins, but I have
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 16: provided an occupation for Miss Bennett during our absence. Good morning,
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 16: Miss Bennett. I may ask you later for dinner.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 6: Curtsey, good morning, Madam.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: All go out, mister Collins, showing servile attentions to Lady Catherine.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth watches them from the door.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 6: Really, I might have spared myself some of the mortifications
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 6: I have felt for the shortcomings of my own family.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 6: The contrast is not such a violent one after.
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: All, looking at the writing desk.
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 6: However, Lady Catherine can give good advice. I really ought
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 6: to write to my poor dear Jane.
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: She sets herself at the writing table, gets out her paper,
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: et cetera, and begins her letter. When the doorbell sounds,
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth starts and is putting away the writing materials when
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: the maid ushers and mister Darcy, who seems very much excited.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 12: I am here again, Miss Bennett. I saw a mister
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 12: and missus Collins drive away with my aunt. I have
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 12: something which I must say to you.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: He walks excitedly up and down for a moment while
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth watches him in amazed silence. Then he suddenly goes
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: up to her and begins to speak in an agitated manner, Miss.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 12: Bennett, in vain, have I struggled? It will not do.
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 12: My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 12: to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: It is perfectly astounded. She stares colors doubts and is silent,
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: taking her silence for encouragement.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 12: Miss Bennett, I can well understand your own astonishment of
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 12: this declaration, but I am amazed at myself. My feeling
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 12: for you has taken possession of me, against my will,
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 12: my reason, and almost against my.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: Character, starting an indignant.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 12: Sir, Oh, understand me. I beg of you for yourself alone.
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 12: My admiration is only too natural. I share it with
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 12: everyone who has the happiness of knowing you. But pardon
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 12: me for it pays me to offend you. The defects
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 12: of your nearest relations, the total lack of propriety, so
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 12: frequently betrayed by your family, has so opposed my judgment
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 12: to my inclination that it has required the utmost force
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 12: of passion in my part to put them aside. But
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 12: my dear miss Bennett, your triumph is complete. Your own
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 12: loveliness stands out the fear in its contrast to your surroundings,
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 12: and I now hope that the strength of my love
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 12: may have its reward in your acceptance of.
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: My hand, who has gone through all sorts of emotions
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: during the speech, speaks in a constrained manner as of
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: trying to control yourself.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 6: Mister Darcy. In such cases as this, it is I
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 6: believe the established maid to express a sense of obligate
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 6: for the sentiments avowed, However unequally they may be returned.
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 6: If I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you,
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 6: but I cannot. I have never desired your good opinion,
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 6: and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: Leaning against the mantelpiece, here's her words, with no less
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: resentment than surprise. After a little he speaks in a
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: voice of forced calmness.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 12: And that is all a reply which I am to
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 12: have the honor of expecting. I might perhaps wish to
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 12: be informed why with so little endeavored civility I am
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 12: thus rejected, But it is of small importance.
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 6: I might as well inquire, why, with so evident a
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 6: design of insulting me, you chose to tell me that
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 6: you liked me against your will, your reason, and even
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 6: against your character. Was not this some excuse for incivility?
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 6: If I was uncivil?
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 12: I very clearly explained that the objection which appeared to
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 12: my reason applied entirely to your family, but in no
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 12: respect to yourself.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 6: I am a part of my family, mister Darcy, And
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 6: allow me to say that, since I have had the
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 6: opportunity of comparing my relations with your own, the contrast
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 6: is not so marked as I have been led to suppose.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: Darcy starts.
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 6: But aside from all questions of either feeling or family,
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 6: do you think any consideration would tempt me to accept
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 6: the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps forever,
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 6: the happiness of a most beloved sister and involving her
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 6: in misery of the acutest kind.
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: Darcia looks at her with a smile of incredulty.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 6: Can you deny that you have done this?
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 12: I have no worship of denying that I did everything
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 12: in my power to separate my friend from your sister.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 12: I did not, indeed anticipate that I should involve either
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 12: of them in misery of any kind, or your sister's side,
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 12: at least, I was never able to discover any symptom
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 12: of peculiar regard for mister Bingley. While for every reason
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 12: I must rejoice in my success with my friend, toward him,
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 12: I have been kinder than toward myself.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 6: Your arrogance and calmly deciding the extent of other people's
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 6: sentiments does not surprise me. It is of a peace
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 6: with your whole nature. But your interference in my sister's
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 6: concerns is not all long before it had taken place.
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 6: My opinion of you was decided. Your character was unfolded
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 6: in the recital which I received months ago from mister Wickham.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: Darcy starts excitedly, What.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 6: Can you have to say on this subject? In what
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 6: imaginary act of friendship? Can you here defend yourself in a.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: Tone of suppressed excitement, in marked contrast to his previous
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: self assured manner, you.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 6: Take an eager interest in that gentleman, who that knows
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 6: what his misfortunes have been, can help feeling an interest in.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 12: Him his misfortune. Yes, his misfortunes have been great.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 6: Indeed, and of your infliction you have reduced him to
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 6: his present state of poverty comparative poverty. You have withheld
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 6: the advantages which you must note have been designed for him.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 6: You have done all this, and yet you can treat
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 6: the mention of his misfortunes with contempt and a ridicule,
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 6: walking up and.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: Down the room with quick steps.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 12: And this is your opinion of me, This is the
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 12: estimation in which you hold me. I thank you for
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 12: explaining it.
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: So fully, stopping and looking at her.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 12: Perhaps if my word to divulge the truth regarding mister Wickham,
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 12: I might give you as great a surprise, as you.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 7: Have given me after a slight pause.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 12: I do not care to go into particulars, but in
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 12: justice to myself, I must tell you that the man
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 12: whom you consider a martyr is a profligate with the
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 12: most vicious propensities, a man who should never have entered
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 12: your home. For his presence, there is a constant.
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 6: Source of danger, mister Darcy.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 12: I am ready to give you the full proofs of
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 12: all I have said, Miss Bennett, whenever you may so desire,
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 12: although I would badly forget all the miserable circumstances myself,
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 12: and no obligation less than the present should induce me
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 12: to unfold them to any human being.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 6: Your judgment in the matter of my sister's happiness has
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 6: given me a gauge by which I can measure your
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 6: fairness to a man who has been so unfortunate as
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 6: to offend you. My faith in mister Wickham is unshaken.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: Looking at Elizabeth in indignation and by a great effort
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: governing himself.
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 12: I shall take what you have said, Miss Bennet, as
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 12: reflection on my judgment alone. Otherwise my veracity would be
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 12: at stake, and this I am sure you did not intend. Indeed,
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 12: I understand your whole position perfectly. I have erred in
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 12: a manner of my declaration. Your bitter accusations might have
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 12: been suppressed had I concealed my struggles. It is my
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 12: own fault I have wounded your pride. I should have
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 12: flattered you into the belief that I was impelled by inclination,
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 12: by reason, by reflection, by everything but disguise of every sort.
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  Speaker 12: Is my abhorrence. Would you expect me to rejoice in
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 12: the inferiority of your connections?
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  Speaker 6: And do you expect me to rejoice in your proposal
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 6: that I ally myself to the conceit and impertinence of yours. No,
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  Speaker 6: mister Darcy, the manner of your declaration has affected me
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 6: only in one way. It has spared me the concern
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 6: which I might otherwise have felt in refusing you. Had
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 6: you behaved in a more gentlemanlike.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: Way, Darcy starts.
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  Speaker 6: You could not, however, have made me the offer of
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 6: your hand in any possible way that would have tempted
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 6: me to accept it.
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  Speaker 1: Darcy looks at her with an expression of mortified amazement.
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  Speaker 6: I had not known you a month before I felt
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 6: that you were the last man in the world with
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 6: whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
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  Speaker 12: You have said quite enough, Madame, I quite comprehend your feelings,
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 12: and have now only to be ashamed of what my
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 12: own have been. Forgive me for having taken up so
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 12: much of your time, and accept my best wishes for
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 12: your health and happiness.
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  Speaker 1: Darcy hastily leaves the room, sinking into a chair, getting
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: up and walking excitedly about the room.
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  Speaker 6: To insult my family, to think I was ready to
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  Speaker 6: fall on my knees in gratitude for his condescension, to
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 6: calmly dispose of Jane's happiness.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: Stopping in her walk with a half amused smile.
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  Speaker 6: And yet really to be in love with me in
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 6: spite of every obstacle.
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  Speaker 1: Throwing herself again into the chair, half laughing, half crying.
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  Speaker 6: Oh Jane, Jane, I wish you were here.
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  Speaker 1: Enters with a letter.
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  Speaker 5: Here is a letter, Miss, the Express has just brought it,
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  Speaker 5: a letter for me.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, miss.
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  Speaker 1: She gives Elizabeth the letter, curses and goes out, looking
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: at the letter.
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  Speaker 6: Why it is from Jane? What can be the matter?
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: She opens the letter hurriedly and reads.
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  Speaker 6: Dearest Lizzie, I have bad news for you, and it
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  Speaker 6: cannot be delayed. An express came to us last night
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  Speaker 6: from Colonel Forster. He told us that Lydia had run
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 6: away from Brighton with one of his officers to own
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  Speaker 6: the truth with Wickham.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Wickham, going on with the letter, he first.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 6: Thought they had gone to Scotland. But oh, Lizzie, it
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 6: is far worse than that. We now know that Wickham
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 6: never intended to go there or to marry Lydia at all.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, reading again, Colonel.
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  Speaker 6: Foster has been here to day. He says. Wickham is
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 6: not a man to be trusted. He has left bright
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 6: and terribly in debt, and his record is bad in
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 6: every way. Oh, Lizzie, our distress is very great. My
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 6: father is going to London with Colonel Forster instantly to
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 6: try to discover the fugitives. It is hard to ask
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 6: you to shorten your visit, but we are in such.
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: Distress that guarding from her sipt.
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, where where is the express? I must write? No,
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 6: I must go, oh Lydia and Wickham. I must go
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 6: at once. I must send some one for a car.
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  Speaker 1: She rushes to the garden door, calling.
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  Speaker 6: Martha, Martha the express.
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: Suddenly she calls again, Oh, Colonel Fitzwilliam, is that you
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: appearing in the garden.
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  Speaker 10: What is the matter, Miss Bennett?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Colonel Fitzwilliam, the express? Or can you get me
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 6: a carriage? I have had bad news from home. I
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 6: must return at once, and mister Collins is away. Will
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 6: you be so kind?
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: She falls half fainting upon a chair near the door.
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  Speaker 10: Certainly, my dear Miss Bennett, of course, but calling off, Darcy,
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 10: don't wait for me. I can't join you now. Miss
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 10: Bennett is in distress, entering Miss Bennett.
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  Speaker 12: Good God, what is the matter?
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 10: Miss Bennett has just had bad news from home. She
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 10: wishes to return and desires a carriage.
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  Speaker 12: In a decided tone, do you give her the carriage?
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 12: Fits William, get one from the stables.
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  Speaker 1: Fitz William hesitates, go, I.
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 12: Will remain with Miss Bennett.
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  Speaker 1: Fitz William goes out to Elizabeth very gently.
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 12: Shall I call the maid Miss Bennett a glass of wine?
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  Speaker 12: Shall I get it for you?
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  Speaker 1: You are very ill, hardly able to speak.
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  Speaker 6: No, I thank you. There is nothing the matter with me.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 6: I am quite well. I am only distressed by some
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 6: dreadful news which I have just received from Longbourn.
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  Speaker 1: Helplessly.
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  Speaker 12: I am sorry, very indeed, after a short silence.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 6: I have just had a letter from Jane with such
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 6: dreadful news it cannot be concealed from any one.
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  Speaker 12: I am grieved, Miss Bennett, grieved indeed.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, mister Darcy, you were right if I had only
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 6: believed you, you and others. But I could not believe it.
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  Speaker 12: What is it, my dear missus Bennett. What has happened?
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  Speaker 6: Oh? I cannot tell it, and yet everyone must know.
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  Speaker 6: My sister Lydia has has a noted, has thrown herself
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  Speaker 6: into the power of mister Wickham. She has no money,
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  Speaker 6: nothing that can tempt him to She is lost forever.
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  Speaker 12: Good God, Miss Bennett, your sister and Wickham. Oh this
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 12: is my fault. I should have realized this danger. I
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 12: should have spoken my own wretched experience with this man,
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 12: should have been told.
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  Speaker 6: Your experience.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, you remember, I hinted it to you today, But
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 12: I should long ago have spoken boldly.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 12: Mister Wickham attempted the same plan with my own sister
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 12: two years ago. She was an ignorant, innocent, trusting girl
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  Speaker 12: of fifteen. Happily, his villainy was discovered and prevented. But oh,
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 12: I should have told you, had is carry to be known,
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  Speaker 12: This could not have happened.
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  Speaker 6: You tried to tell me, mister Darcy. Everybody has tried
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 6: to warn me, but I could not believe it. And
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 6: now it is too late, too late.
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 12: Let us hope not is what you told me? Certain?
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 12: Absolutely certain?
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  Speaker 6: Oh yes, they left Brighton together on Sunday night. They
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 6: are suddenly not gone to Scotland.
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 12: And what has been done or attempted to recover your sister?
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 6: My father has gone to London. He will beg my
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 6: uncle Gardener's assistance. But nothing can be done. I know
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 6: very well that nothing can be done. How is such
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 6: a man to be worked on? How are they ever
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 6: to be discovered? I have not the smallest hope.
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  Speaker 12: It is all horrible, Miss Bennet, I have made a
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 12: wretched mistake in all this. Would to Heaven that anything
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 12: could be said or done on my part that might
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 12: make you reparation or offer consolation to such distress.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth sayings sobbing and to a chair, while Darcy walks
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: up and down in deep thought. In a moment, a
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: carriages her outside. Then voices looking.
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 12: Out, and missus Collins are returning, what would you wish
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 12: me to do?
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 6: Oh? I don't know, I do not know.
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  Speaker 1: Returning to Elizabeth speaks quickly and in deep concern, you.
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 12: Really wish to return home? At once?
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: Rising from her chair, Oh, yes, yes, at once, reaching
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: her hand to him, appealingly, take.
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  Speaker 6: Me home, mister Darcy, take me home.
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  Speaker 1: At this instant, mister and Missus Collins appear at the
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: garden door and transfixts with astonishment, standing gazing at Darcy
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: and Elizabeth. End of Act three, Act for a Pride
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. The lawn Shrubbery at Longbourn, Missus Bennett
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: is seated in a garden chair with pillows at her back.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: She has an umbrella over her head. Near her stands
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: a table on which are bottles, dishes, et cetera. She
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: wears a big cap and is gowned in a widely
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: flowing flowered chamber robe, over which is fashioned a shawl
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: across her knees is a lap robe. Her entire get
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: up is grotesque and lappable about her hover the housekeeper
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: Hill and Jane.
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  Speaker 5: Damn, mamma, do try and take some of this nice cruel.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 5: You will be ill if you do not eat something.
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, do I beg of you, madame, Now that you
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: are once more in the air, if you will only
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: take some food, you will feel much better.
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 2: How can I feel better? I must be. It is
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 2: all very well for the rest of you, now that
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 2: this disgrace has been brought upon me. But if I
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 2: had been able to carry my point, if I could
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 2: have gone to Brighton with all my family, this would
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 2: never have happened. But poor dear Lydia had nobody to
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 2: take care of her. Oh, that villanious Wickham. I am
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 2: sure there was some great neglect or other somewhere, for
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 2: Lydia is not the kind of girl to run away
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 2: with a man. But no one would listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: I was overruled, as I always am. Poor Lydia, poor
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  Speaker 2: dear girl.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, mamma, try to be calm, yes, madame, this excitement
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 5: is so bad for you.
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 2: How can I help being excited? You have no feelings?
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: Here is mister Bennett gone away, and I know he
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 2: will fight that abominable Wickham and be killed. And then
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 2: what is to become I was all the Collinses will
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 2: turn us out before mister Bennett is called in the grave.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Mamma, do not have such terrific ideas.
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  Speaker 2: If my brother Gardiner is not kind to me, I
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 2: do not know what we shall do.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, my uncle Gardiner is very kind. He is
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 5: doing everything in his power for us. He is helping
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  Speaker 5: my father now in London. You know, I hope he
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 5: will find Lydia, and perhaps he may be able to
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 5: arrange a marriage. After all. You must not give up, so,
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 5: dear Mamma.
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  Speaker 1: No, indeed, madame, you must not.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, yes, Jane, that is true. My brother may be
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 2: able to see that they are married. Write him at once, Jane,
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 2: tell him to find them out wherever they may be,
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  Speaker 2: and if they are not married, already make them marry.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I do think that wicked is the wickedest young
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 2: man in the world to so deceive my poor innocent Lydia.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 2: But Jane, go and write my brother and tell him
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  Speaker 2: that Lydia need not wait for wedding clothes. Don't let
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 2: her even give directions till she has seen me, for
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't know which are the best warehouses. And Oh, Jane,
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  Speaker 2: tell my brother to keep your father from fighting that
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  Speaker 2: hateful Wigham. Tell him what a dreadful state I am in.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, mamma, she is about to go.
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  Speaker 16: Where are you going?
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  Speaker 5: Why to write the letter? Mamma?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, not just this minute. Don't leave me alone. Where
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 2: is Lizzie?
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  Speaker 5: She has gone down the road to meet the post.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 5: She hopes to bring you good news.
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  Speaker 2: She had better stay here and be of some help.
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 2: She has only just got home, and now she leaves me.
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  Speaker 2: But nobody thinks of me. Nobody knows what I suffer.
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 2: I am frightened out of my wits. I have such
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 2: trembling and flutterings all over me, such spasms in my side,
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 2: and paints in my head, and such beatings at my heart. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I can get no rest by night or by day.
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 2: To Hill you might try and do something.
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  Speaker 7: Hill.
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  Speaker 2: Where is my soothing draft?
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: Looking here? Madame?
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  Speaker 2: No, I must have left it in your room.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: I will run fetch it. She goes out quickly. Who
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: has been looking off towards the driveway during part of
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: this tirade.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, mamma, mamma. Lizzie's running up the drive. She is smiling.
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  Speaker 5: She has some good news. I am sure.
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  Speaker 2: Take care, Jane. You are exciting me. Oh, my poor nerves.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth enters breathless. She has a letter in her hand.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, good news, good news, Jane, mamma, they are married.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Lizzie, Lizzie, you're.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, Lizzie, don't excite me, you're sure.
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  Speaker 1: Half laughing and half crying.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, tis certain. My dear aunt Gardner has written
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  Speaker 6: me all about it. They are really married. Oh, how
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 6: good my uncle is. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: She kisses the letter.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Jane, Oh Lizzie, my dear dear Lydia, she's really married.
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 2: I shall see her again. Oh, my good kind brother.
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 2: But how did it happen?
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  Speaker 5: Lizzie, Yes, tell us all about it, Let me read it.
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: She reaches for the letter, keeping the letter.
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  Speaker 6: No, I will tell you when my father and my
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 6: uncle succeeded in finding Lydia. My aunt does not tell me,
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 6: just how it was done triumphantly.
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 2: And your father found that they were married after all,
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 2: I told him.
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  Speaker 6: No, mamma, they were not married, and they had no
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 6: idea of being married. But my father and uncle insisted
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 6: upon it. They took Lydia away at once to my
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 6: aunt's house, and from there they were married only yesterday
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 6: at Saint Clement's Church.
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 2: Saint Clement's Fine.
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  Speaker 6: My dear good uncle has arranged to have all mister
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 6: Wickham's debts paid, and my father is to settle an
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 6: allowance on Lydia. But where are they? What are they
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 6: going to do? My father is coming home at once.
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 6: He may be here at any moment. At first he
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 6: would not consent to let Lydia and Wickham come to us,
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 6: but my aunt and uncle urged it, and my father
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 6: knew how anxious Mamma would be. And so they are
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 6: coming here too at once, Yes, directly to day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear Lydia, how I long to see her,
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  Speaker 2: and to see my dear Weakham too. But the clothes,
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 2: the wedding clothes. I must write my sister Gardener about
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 2: them directly.
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: She tries to get out of the chair.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Mamma, there is plenty of time for that.
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 2: Well perhaps, so, my dear dear Lydia, how merry we
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 2: shall all be together. I am so happy Lydia married,
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 2: she is missus Wickham. How well it sounds, my dear Jane,
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 2: I must see about the clothes. We will settle with
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 2: your father about two mony later. Oh, I am in
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 2: such a flutter. Here comes Hill.
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: Hell enters with the bottle.
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  Speaker 2: My dear Hill, have you heard a news? Miss Lydia
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 2: is married and is coming home directly? Indeed, yes, you
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  Speaker 2: shall all have a bowl of punch to make marry
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  Speaker 2: for her wedding. And I am going into the house
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  Speaker 2: to write about the clothes.
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: Jane, who is going with her?
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  Speaker 2: No, Jane, you say where you are? I know what
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  Speaker 2: I am about. Come here, think of it, missus Wickham.
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  Speaker 1: She goes out, leaning on Hill's arm, leaving Jane and
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth together.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Lizzie, how relieved and happy we should be? Is
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 5: it not wonderful? Ah? You sure it is true? Have
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  Speaker 5: you told us all?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Jane, it is true they are really married? And
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  Speaker 6: for this we are to be thankful, in spite of
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  Speaker 6: Liddya's folly and Wickham's wretched character, we are to rejoice.
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  Speaker 6: How strange it is, hey, ho.
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  Speaker 1: Putting out her hand for the letter which Elizabeth still carries.
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  Speaker 5: May not I read the letter, Lizzie?
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  Speaker 6: No, not now, dear My aunt has some queer notions
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  Speaker 6: in her head later.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps after a pause.
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  Speaker 6: I am very sorry now that, in my agitation I
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  Speaker 6: told mister Darcy about this wretched affair. Now that it
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  Speaker 6: has come out so well, he need never have known
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  Speaker 6: anything about it, and it would have saved me a
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  Speaker 6: great deal of mortification.
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 5: But how would you ever have explained things to Charlotte
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  Speaker 5: and mister Collins without his help. Mister Darcy made everything
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  Speaker 5: so smooth and plausible for your sudden departure. Yes, that
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  Speaker 5: is true, really, Lizzie, I think I shall have to
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  Speaker 5: take up the cudgels in mister Darcy's defense. His kindness
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 5: to you has quite won my heart, and his amazing
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 5: proposal was certainly a most flattering compliment. Why can you
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 5: see no good in mister Darcy, Lizzy? You are always
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 5: so full of excuses for Wickham, though it is true
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  Speaker 5: his open and delightful manners deceived us all.
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 6: Yes, there certainly was great mismanagement in the education of
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 6: those two young men. One is all the goodness and
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 6: the other all the appearance of it.
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 5: I never thought mister Darcy so deficient in the appearance
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 5: of it as you did, and he certainly could hardly
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 5: have had the friends he has if he did not
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 5: possess some good qualities. Lizzie, have you heard that mister
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 5: Bingley is back in Netherfield?
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 6: Oh? Jane, No, when did he come? Have you seen him?
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 17: No?
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 5: I hardly expect to see him.
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 6: Yes, you will if he has returned.
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: Suddenly clasping her hands.
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, I understand, kissing her, my darling, Jane, you are
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 6: going to be very happy.
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 5: Lizzie, dear, don't don't. That is all over now. And besides,
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 5: I don't want to be happy unless you can be too.
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 6: Oh forty, mister Bingley's won't make me happy till I
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 6: have your disposition, and I can never have happiness. No, No,
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 6: let me shift for myself. Perhaps if I have very
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 6: good luck, I may meet with another mister Collins. In time.
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 10: Entry, mister Bennett had returned, Madam, and are looking for you?
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 5: Papa returned?
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 6: Where is he?
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 5: Harris?
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: Looking off?
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 6: There he comes, Papa.
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: They run to meet mister Bennett and bringing him in
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: see them in a garden chair, one on either side
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: of him.
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 6: Papa tell us all about it quickly quickly.
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 5: Are they really married? Papa?
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 12: Yes?
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 3: That misfortune is well settled on them. They are married fast.
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 6: Enough and where are they? When will they be here?
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 3: I should say they would be here directly. I didn't
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 3: care to travel with them. But they are not far behind,
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 3: only just far enough to keep out of the dust
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 3: of my post.
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 6: Chaise, Dear Papa, how you must have suffered?
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 3: Say nothing of that. Who should suffer but myself? It
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 3: has been my own doing and I ought to feel it.
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 6: He must not be too severe upon yourself.
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 3: You may well warn me against such an evil. No, Lizzie,
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 3: let me once in my life feel how much I
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 3: have been to blame. The impression will pass away soon enough.
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 6: But Papa, how did you persuade them to marry?
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 3: I didn't persuade them. I haven't the means. It is
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 3: all your uncle's doing. He has managed to buy Wickham
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 3: for us.
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, dear good uncle.
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: Looking at Jane quizzically.
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 3: But there are two things that I want very much
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 3: to know. One is how much money your uncle has
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 3: laid down to bring it about, and the other how
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 3: am I ever to pay him?
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 5: But my uncle did not do at all.
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 6: No, Papa, my aunt Garden has written me that you
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 6: ought to give Lydia an allowance.
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, one hundred a year. Do you think that any
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 3: man in his proper senses would marry Lydia on so
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 3: slight a temptation as one hundred a year.
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 6: That is very true, though it had not occurred to
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 6: me before. Oh it must be my uncle's doings. Generous man,
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 6: I am afraid he has distressed himself. A small sum
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 6: could not do all this.
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 3: No, Wickham's a fool. If he takes Lydia for a
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 3: farthing less than ten thousand pounds, I should be sorry
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 3: to think so ill of him in the very beginning
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 3: of our relationship.
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 6: Ten thousand pounds. Heavens forbid? How is half such a
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 6: sum to be repaid?
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 3: That is what I should like to know.
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 6: Well, my uncle's kindness can never be requited. If such
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 6: goodness as his does not make Lydia miserable, then she
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 6: will never deserve to be happy.
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: Laughter and voices are heard outside.
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 6: Surely I hear voices looking off? Why they have come,
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 6: see Papa Jane. There are Lydia and Wickham.
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, here they are. I will go to the library.
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 3: I can receive their congratulations later. You know, I am
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 3: prodigiously fond of Wickham. Lizzie, I defy even Sir William
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 3: lucas himself to produce a more valuable son in law.
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 5: He goes out, I must run and tell Mamma.
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 1: She is just starting. When Wickham and Lydia enter, they
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: are in traveling guests and are followed by servants bringing
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: all sorts of bamboxes, wraps and parcels. They come in
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: with the utmost unconcerned and no shadow of shame.
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 4: Well, Jane, well Lizzie. Here we are.
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: Smiling and unabashed.
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 7: My sister Jane, my sister Elizabeth.
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: He kisses their hands. Jane and Elizabeth are confused and blushing.
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: Neither Wickham nor Lydia are in the least discomposed looking about.
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 17: Good gracious here I am again.
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 4: I am sure.
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 17: I had no idea of being married when I went away,
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 17: though I thought it would be very good fun if
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 17: I was.
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 4: Why don't you take the boxes in here? Wickham?
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 17: Have you seen my pink flowered bandbox.
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 1: Looking over the parcels.
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 17: No, it isn't here, Oh, my dear Wickham, do go
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 17: fetch it. You know tis the box with the white
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 17: satin hat you bought me. I wouldn't lose it for
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 17: the world.
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 7: Go go, certainly, my dear to the girls. You see
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 7: how eagerly I embrace my new opportunities.
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: He runs out, laughing to Elizabeth and Jane.
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 17: Oh, girls, I am dying to give you an account
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 17: of my wedding.
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 6: I think that cannot be too little said on that subject.
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 17: Lah, you are so strange. But Jane wants to hear
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 17: I know anyway. I want to tell you. Well, there
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 17: was such a fuss. My aunt was.
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 4: Preaching and talking away to me all the time.
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 17: I'm always dressing, just as if she was reading a sermon.
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 17: I didn't hear one word in ten of it.
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 12: All.
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 4: I was thinking of my dear Wickham.
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 17: I longed to know whether he would be married in
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 17: his blue coat. Well, we got to church, and then
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 17: my uncle gave me a fright after we got there,
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 17: because he was so late, and he was going to
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 17: give me away, you know. But then if he hadn't come,
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 17: mister Darcy might have done as well. Mister Darcy, Oh, yes,
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 17: Darcy was there. He came along with Wickham, suddenly stopping.
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 17: But gracious me, I quite forgot. I ought not to
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 17: have said a word about it.
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 4: I promised them, as faithfully, what will Wickham say? It
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 4: was to be such a secret.
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 5: If it was to be a secret, Lydia, say not
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 5: another word on the subject. We shall ask you no questions.
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth looks most anxiously, but says nothing.
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 17: Thank you, for if you did, I should certainly tell
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 17: you all, and then Wickham would be angry.
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: She sees Missus Bennett, who enters with a great excitement
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: from the house.
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 4: Oh there is Mama.
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: They rush into each other's arms. Wickham returns at about
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: the same time.
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear dear Lydia.
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: To Wickham with an affectionate warmth, My dear Wickham, They
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: also embrace.
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 17: Oh, Mama, aren't you glad to see us?
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: Wickham turns and talks to Jane and Elizabeth.
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 17: Do all the people hereabouts know that I am married?
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 17: I was afraid they might not, and so I let
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 17: my hand just rest on the window frame outside the carriage,
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 17: so that everybody could see my wedding ring. And then
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 17: I bowed and smiled like everything.
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 2: You may be sure, my dear, that everybody will rejoice
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 2: with us in our good luck. Your marriage is a
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 2: great compensation to me, after all my disappointment about Jane
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 2: and Lizzie. I do not blame Jane for she would
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 2: have got mister Binley if she could. But Lizzy, oh, Lydia,
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 2: it is very hard to think she might now have
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 2: been missus Collins. But how about your clothes?
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, I have a lot already.
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 17: You may be sure I would not forget them.
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 2: But you didn't know the best warehouses. Well, never mind,
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 2: we will see to that later. Now you must all
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 2: come in and have dinner. You must be famished. Come, girls,
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 2: Come my dear Wickham.
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: They all go towards the house, and at the door,
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: Lydia pushes Jane back.
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 17: Ah, Jane, I take your place now, I go first,
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 17: because I am a married woman.
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: They all go into the house. After a pause, Harris's
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: voice is heard outside.
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 10: Well, not you're coming to law hall.
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: Laurel entering, followed by Harris.
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 16: No, I prefer to remain here. Tell miss Elizabeth Bennett
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 16: that a lady wishes to see her at once. Remember
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 16: I cannot be kept waiting.
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, madam, He bows and goes out. She looks about
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 1: her in a sniff, then deliberately seats herself in the
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: big garden chair with the umbrella over it. She mutters
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: to herself from time to time and taps her foot impatiently.
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 16: Sufferable impudence conceited little mis she shall have a piece
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 16: of my mind.
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth comes to her from the house without moving.
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 16: Miss Bennett, you could be at no loss to understand
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 16: the reason of my journey. Hither your own heart, your
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 16: own conscience, must tell you why I come.
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 6: Indeed you are mistaken, Madam. I am not at all
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 6: able to account for the honor of seeing you here.
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 16: Miss Bennett. You ought to know that I am not
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 16: to be trifled with. I have just been told that
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 16: you that Miss Elizabeth Bennett would, in all likelihood be
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 16: soon married to my nephew, mister Darcy. Though I know
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 16: it to be a scandalous falsehood, I instantly resolved on
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 16: setting off for this place, that I might make my
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 16: sentiments known to you.
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 6: If you believed it impossible to be true, I wonder
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 6: you took the trouble of coming so far. What could
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 6: your ladyship propose by.
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 16: It at once? To insist upon having such a report
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 16: universally contradicted.
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 6: Your coming to Longbourn to see me and my family
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 6: will be rather a confirmation of it, if indeed such
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 6: a report is in existence.
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 16: If do you then pretend to be ignorant of it?
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 16: Do you not know that such a report is spread about?
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 6: I never heard that it was, And can.
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 16: You likewise declare that there is no foundation for it?
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 6: Your Ladyship may ask questions which I shall not choose
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 6: to answer.
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 16: This is not to be born, Miss Bennett. I insist
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 16: upon being satisfied. Has he has my nephew made you
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 16: an offer of marriage?
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 6: Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible.
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 16: It ought to be so, But your arts and allurements
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 16: may have made him forget what he owes to himself
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 16: and to all his family. You may have drawn him in.
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 6: If I have, I shall be the last person to
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 6: confess it.
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 16: Miss Bennett. Do you know who I am? I have
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 16: not been accustomed to such language as this. I am
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 16: mister Darcy's own aunt, and am entitled to know all
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 16: his dearest concerns.
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 6: But you are not entitled to know mine.
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 16: Let me be rightly understood. This match can never take place. No, never,
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 16: mister Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 16: you got to say?
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 6: Only this that, if it is so, you can have
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 6: no reason to suppose mister Darcy will make an offer
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 6: to me.
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 16: Hesitating the engagement between them is of a peculiar kind,
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 16: while in their cradles, my sister and I plan their union.
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 16: Do you pay no regard to the wishes of his friends?
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 16: Do not you see that honor decorum?
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 6: Nay?
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 16: Interest? Forbid you marrying my nephew, Yes, interest, miss Bennett,
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 16: for you will be slighted and despised by every one
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 16: connected with him.
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 6: These are heavy misfortunes. But the wife of mister Darcy
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 6: must have such extraordinary sources of happiness that she could
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 6: have no cause to repine.
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 16: Obstinate headstrong girl, Tell me once for all, are you
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 16: engaged to my nephew?
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: Hesitates, then firmly.
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 16: I am not relieved, And will you promise me never
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 16: to enter into such an engagement?
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 6: I will make no promise of the kind.
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 16: Miss Bennett. I am shocked and alished. I shall not
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 16: go away until you have given me the assurance I require.
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 6: And I certainly shall never give it. I must beg therefore,
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 6: to be importuned no further on the subject.
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: In a fury, but trying to speak calmly.
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 16: Not so hasty, if you please, I had hoped to
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 16: spare you this last humiliation, but your insolence forbids it.
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 16: I am no stranger to the particulars of your sister's
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 16: infamous elopement. I know all the young man's marrying her
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 16: was a patched up business at the expense of my nephew.
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth starts violently, Oh, you.
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 16: Needn't start, miss. Nobody knows about the whole affair better
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 16: than you. But I don't wonder you blush to find
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 16: yourself discovered. You used your arts. Well, my nephew must
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 16: have spent full five or six thousand pounds to save
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 16: your family from disgrace. I should think that such generosity
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 16: might appeal a little to your gratitude and your sense
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 16: of decency.
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 5: Amazed, how madam, I it is.
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 16: Quite useless to protest. I have my facts from the
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 16: best authority Heaven knows. Darcy has reason enough to keep
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 16: away from Wickham's flirtations and entanglements, but that is a
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 16: family affair. However, you have managed to get him mixed
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 16: up in them again, to the extent of five thousand pounds.
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 16: But that is not enough. You want to make this
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 16: shameless girl my nephew's sister and the son of his
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 16: father's steward, his brother Heaven and earth are the shades
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 16: of Pameley. Thus to be polluted.
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 6: Madam, you have insulted me in every possible manner. I
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 6: must beg to return to the house. This is beyond endurance.
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 16: Selfish girl. You are then resolved to have him.
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 6: Lady Catherine, I have nothing fir that to say, rising.
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 16: From her chair, very well, I shall now know how
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 16: to act. Do not imagine your ambition will be gratified.
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 16: Depend upon it. I shall carry my point going. I
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 16: take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. You deserve no
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 16: such attention. You will see what it is to rouse
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 16: my displeasure.
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 1: Lady Catherine goes out, sinking upon the garden seat, overwhelmed.
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 6: Can it be possible? Do we owe all this to Darcy?
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 6: It is intolerable.
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: She puts her hands over her face in abandonment of grief.
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: Is heard outside, calling Lizzie, Lizzie. She enters, and, on
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 1: seeing her sister, rushes.
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 5: To her, Lizzie, Dear, what is it? Is there any new.
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 1: Trouble, throwing her arms about her sister.
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, Jane, Jane, yes, there is no end of trouble.
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 6: Lady Catherine has been here.
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 5: Lady Catherine, yes, yes, and she says that, Oh, Jane,
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 5: tell me, Lizzy.
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 6: She says, it was Darcy who paid all the money
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 6: to Wickham. It was Darcy saved us. And and she
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 6: says I persuaded him, I ensnared him, and and she
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 6: has insulted me.
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 5: My dear dear Lizzy. There must be some mistake. It
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 5: was my good uncle.
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 6: Who No, no, Jane, it must be true. I can
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 6: put things together now. My aunt's hints in the letter,
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 6: you know I did not want to show it to you.
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 6: Then what Lydia let fall and her fear of Wickham's anger.
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 5: Well, dear mister Darcy's motive is clear enough, and that
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 5: should give you no pain.
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 6: You are mistaken. I know his motive. He feels that
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 6: he is responsible because he was silent about Wickham's true character.
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 6: He told me that all this would never have happened
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 6: had he done his duty. And now he will despise us.
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 6: He will never wish to see us again as long
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 6: as he lives.
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: She walks up and down in great excitement, entering to Jane, the.
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 10: Young gentleman from Netherfield. Madam, I told them they would
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 10: find you here.
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 6: Oh Jane, I cannot see them.
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 1: She tries to run away, but before she can escape,
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: Bingley enters all smiles, followed by Darcy, who looks very
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  Speaker 1: much troubled and excited. They are both in writing dress.
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  Speaker 1: Darcy carries a whip, shaking.
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  Speaker 11: Hands, Miss Bennett. I am so happy to see you again,
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  Speaker 11: miss Elizabeth. It is good indeed to be back once
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  Speaker 11: more at Longbourn.
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  Speaker 1: He takes Jane to a garden seat.
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  Speaker 12: Embarrassed, Miss Bennett believe me, I should not have followed
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  Speaker 12: my friend. I only expected to ride with him to
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  Speaker 12: the lodge. But I met my aunt coming away from here,
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  Speaker 12: and from something she said, I feared I imagine she
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  Speaker 12: might have offended distressed you.
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth does not reply gaily.
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  Speaker 11: Miss Bennett is going to show me the hermitage. We
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  Speaker 11: shall be back directly.
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  Speaker 1: Jane and Bingley go out, looking anxiously at Elizabeth, who
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 1: remains silent.
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  Speaker 12: Forgive my intrusion, I will go.
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 1: He starts to go away, recovering herself.
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  Speaker 6: No stay, mister Darcy, excuse my own incivility. Your aunt's
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  Speaker 6: visit has excited me. I shall be myself in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Darcy stands by, miserable. At length, she speaks in a
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 1: calmer tone.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Darcy, your aunt has told me of our overwhelming
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  Speaker 6: obligation to you. You must let me thank you for
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  Speaker 6: your unexampled kindness to my poor.
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  Speaker 1: Sister, explaining being has whip against his knees.
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  Speaker 12: Damn, Oh, I beg your pardon, Miss Bennett. I beg
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  Speaker 12: your pardon. What right is my aunt to middle in
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  Speaker 12: my affairs? How dare she give you such distress?
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 6: It is far better that we know the truth, mister Darcy.
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 6: For my part, I can never express to you our obligation.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, Miss Bennett, I beg of you. The obligation was
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 12: entirely my own. I only did what was my decent,
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  Speaker 12: plain duty. You remember I told you if I had spoken,
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  Speaker 12: this would never have happened.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I remember, But you exaggerated your responsibility. I we
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 6: of course, my father will see you about your loan
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  Speaker 6: to us. I would not have Lady Catherine think yours again.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, I will settle matters with Lady Catherine. Have no
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 12: fears on that score, Miss Bennet. She shall be set right.
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  Speaker 12: I assure you thank you.
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  Speaker 6: And for all your trouble your kindness. My family can
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 6: never repay you.
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  Speaker 12: Your family urge me nothing. If I had any thought
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  Speaker 12: beyond my duty, it was a thought of you.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth turns away.
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 12: Oh, pardon me. Perhaps I ought not to say all this,
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  Speaker 12: but I owe you a great deal, Miss Bennett, more
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  Speaker 12: than you can know, and I want you to understand
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 12: me better. I really am not the pretentious prigue I
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 12: must have seemed to you. I wish you could forgive
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  Speaker 12: my abominable pride.
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  Speaker 21: Looking at him with a half smile, I will on
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  Speaker 21: one condition, name it that you forget my unwarrantable prejudice.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, miss Bennett.
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  Speaker 1: He goes impetuously forward, gonna restrain himself, smiles and looks
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  Speaker 1: down at her.
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  Speaker 12: I really think, after all, I shall have to be
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 12: grateful to my aunt. She has done us an enormous service.
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  Speaker 6: Smiling still more well, Lady Catherine loves to be useful.
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  Speaker 1: At the back of the scene, bing Lean Jane absorbed
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: in each other, passed by hand in hand. Elizabeth looks
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 1: at them, then turns to Dorcy.
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  Speaker 6: Is that by your permission?
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  Speaker 1: Ruefully?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, you, I had been kinder to my friend than
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 12: to myself.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth, silent still looks after Bingley, and Jane continues in
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  Speaker 1: a discouraged.
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  Speaker 12: Tone, well, I deserve it. It is my own fold, myself
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  Speaker 12: whish conceit has wounded your past. Help. Every sentiment of
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 12: your nature has felt it.
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  Speaker 7: Seeing it demurely.
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  Speaker 6: But one sentiment, they say, is blind.
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  Speaker 12: Stunned Miss Bennett.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth looks up at him. He rushes towards.
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  Speaker 12: Her, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: He holds her in his arms. Curtain End of Pride
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 1: and Prejudice, a play by Mary Keith Medbury Mackay