Act 2 Pgs. 47 -82 Flashcards
Mr. Bennet
For Gods sake, go and get something useful to do. Get to your studies and dont let me listen to any more of this foolishness.
Elizabeth
Papa, I think you handle Lydia the wrong way.
Mrs. Bennet
Dont be so tiresome, mr. Bennet.
Elizabeth
Jane, will you walk to the village with me this afternoon? I have to get- (ad. Lib.)
Hilda
One for you miss jane, two for miss. Lizzie.
Elizabeth
Thank you, hilda.
Collins
Shyness, no doubt, my dear mrs. Bennet. Miss. Elizabeth is avoiding me out of maidenly modesty.
Elizabeth
Where you calling me mama? Oh mr. collins have you finished your sermon? If you’ll excuse me- I want to reply to this letter from Mr. wickham.
Mrs. Bennet
No, lizzie, mr. Collins has something to say to you-
Elizabeth I desire you to remain here.
Elizabeth
But mr. collins can have nothing to say to me that wont wait , mama
Mr. Collins
Long proposal speech ending in…but you can rest assured that on that score no ungenerous word of reproach shall ever pass my lips after we are married.
Elizabeth
Aren’t you a little hasty, sir? You seem to forget that I have made no answer to this dazzling offer! I appreciate the honor you have done me - but candor compels me to decline it.
Collins
I understand, dear miss Elizabeth- yes it is quite a charming and delicate custom for young ladies to say no when they mean yes. I am, therefore, not at all discouraged and shall hope to lead you to the alter before long.
Elizabeth
Upon my word, sir, you are difficult to discourage. I assure you I am not one of those idiotic young ladies you describe, if indeed they exist outside of novels. Difficult as it seems for you to believe- I will not marry you.
Collins
Come, come, miss Elizabeth-
Elizabeth
You could not make me happy and I certainly could not make you so-
Collins
Such charming modesty
Elizabeth
What is more, I have no ambition to try. And if your friend, the lady Catherine DE bourgh really knew me, she would utterly disapprove of me for it the exalted position you offer.
Collins
OH - if I sought lady Catherine would disapprove! On, but no - impossible! You can be sure that when I have the honor of seeing her ladyship again -
Elizabeth
You had better ask her to choose for you, only select a young woman with the humbler and more contrite heart -
Collins
Ah, No, dear cousin, my mind is made up. And IM too well aware that it is by no means certain that any other gentlemen will ever make you an offer - so I Naturally understand at your rejection of my suit is according to the usual practice of elegant females.
Elizabeth
I see! Well, if you can, try to stop thinking of me as an elegant female. Just picture me as a rational creature With A most inelegant habit of speaking the truth.
Collins
AH,You are quite adorable!
Elizabeth
Mr. Collins!
Collins
I am quite certain now that when my proposal is formally sanctioned by your excellent parents that you will plainly say yes.
Elizabeth
Oh, Mr. Collins, I will as plainly as possible say no. And you need not try to scamper in front of me again. This time I am going out by this door.
Bennett
Where is this misguided girl?
Elizabeth
Here, sir.
Bennett
Come here, my child.I understand that Mr. Collins has made you an offer and that you have refused it.
Elizabeth
I have, papa.
Bennett
Then it seems that an unhappy alternative awaits you, Lizzie period from this day forth you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never speak to you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins - and I - will never speak to you again if you do
Elizabeth
Papa!
Mrs Bennett
Now see what you have done, Lizzie, you ungrateful girl! You’ve lost him, and that plain faced scheming little cat will get him and turn us all out of here when your father dies.
Elizabeth
On sense! Charlotte wouldn’t look at him!
Lydia
Ha, ha, hah - we seem to be the 3 graces nobody wants.
Elizabeth
Lydia! It’s nothing Kama mama. Jane had a letter from Caroline bingley - from London -
Jane starts to cry
Elizabeth
Don’t - darling - he’ll come back.
Jane
But, Lizzie, he hasn’t sent one word - not 1! I can’t understand it. Caroline merely tells me they are not coming back until the Spring -
Elizabeth
Nonsense. You’ll see, he will Be here to see papa before the week is out. Only, darling, don’t trust Caroline bingley. She’s fond of you, I know - but she doesn’t want you as her brother’s wife.
Jane
Oh, noe, Lizzie, Caroline has been so sweet to me. C is incapable of deceit!
Elizabeth
All right, my ; believe in her as you do in everyone. One comfort - even she can’t persuade Charles that he doesn’t love you.
Jane
But how can I marry him if his sister is against it?
Elizabeth
That you must decide for yourself, my dearest little saite. If - you decide that the anguish of disobliging his cat of a sister is more than equal to the joy of marrying him - then I advise you to refuse him.
Jane
You naughty girl, Lizzie. You know very well that I should marry him if it vexed every relative he has. But if he doesn’t come back - Lizzie, Lizzie - I couldn’t bear it. I think I should die.
Elizabeth
He must come back - he won’t be able not to -
Jane
Mama!
Elizabeth
Well, mrs Bennett - you certainly don’t believe that marriages are made in heaven -
Mrs bennett
From what I know of men, my dear - if we left it to them and heaven - we would all be old maids.
Elizabeth
Mama -
Darcy
Good morning, miss Elizabeth.
Elizabeth
Good morning!
Darcy
It seems a pity to be wasting all this sunshine.
Elizabeth
it would be if one were doing so Without good reason.
Darcy
You are writing letters?
Elizabeth
Shall we say I was trying to?
Darcy
Pray do not let me disturb you.
Elizabeth
Was there something you wished to say, Mr. Darcy?
Darcy
I was wondering whether you were pleased with Kent?
Elizabeth
I prefer Hartford Shire.
Darcy
We have had little opportunity for conversing these past 2 days. I was surprised to discover you a fellow guest at my aunt’s
Elizabeth
I too was surprised.I had expected to visit the Collins’s at the parsonage. I was not prepared for such an excess of hospitality on the part of your aunt.
Darcy
She likes to have young people about her. But I did not know you were to be here.
Elizabeth
Otherwise you might have remained in town?
Darcy
On the contrary, I should have come with even greater alacrity
Elizabeth
Surprise me, sir, I did not know you were so sociably inclined.
Darcy
Usually I am not. You wish to continue writing. But when you have more leisure.
Elizabeth
Mr. Darcy, if it is conversation you are in need of, I am sure your aunt lady Catherine will be delighted to furnish it you must excuse me. I have to finish my letter.
Collins
Cousin, cousin, you are surely not aware that her ladyship has been asking for you?She intends to join you presently.
Elizabeth
I am honored, but I am very busy, Mr. Collins.
Collins
Must forgive my cousin, she has had so few advantages - I like to prepare things for lady Catherine. She is accustomed to deference. Ah, her ladyship is coming - you are certain your ready, cousin?
Elizabeth
Yes, Mr. Collins.
Lady Catherine
He has no right to be late for breakfast in my house. What were you and miss Bennett saying to each other comet Darcy? Ah, you are writing letters, I see, miss Bennett.
Elizabeth
I was.
Lady Catherine
But why in this room? We always write our letters in the library.
Elizabeth
It’s, I know, lady Catherine - but the library does not possess such a view - and I write with so much more inspiration when looking out on green trees and flowers. Look at that Hawthorn hedge over there.
Lady Catherine
You did not finish telling me about your sister’s last evening. How many did you say you had?
Elizabeth
Four, your ladyship.
Lady Catherine
And how many carriages does your papa keep, my dear?
Elizabeth
One lady Catherine.
Lady Catherine
What was your mama’s maiden name?
Elizabeth
Gardener, ma’am and she has a brother who lives in Cheapside hes an attorney and -
Lady Catherine
Never mind, Collins, I choose not to have heard it. Do you play, my child, and sing?
Elizabeth
A little.
Lady Catherine
What? No governess! Great heavens! I have never heard of such a thing. Your mom must have been a perfect slave to your education.
Elizabeth
Oh, no!
Lady Catherine
pray what is your age?
Elizabeth
As I am still unmarried, your ladyship can hardly expect me to answer that question.
Lady Catherine
You can’t be more than 20, so there is plenty of time before you need to begin lying about your age. If you receive no offer before you are 30, why comet then -
Elizabeth
Is there anything else you would like to know about me, lady Catherine?
Fitzwilliam
Good morning, aunt. Good morning, miss Elizabeth.
Elizabeth
Good morning, sir.
Lady Catherine
tut, tut you are incorrigible. miss Bennett well receive a false impression of your habits.
Elizabeth
On the contrary, lady Katherine, I have already received only the best.
Darcy
And miss Bennett is not easily impressed, aunt.
Elizabeth
You see how unfortunate I am in meeting with a gentleman so well able to expose my real character, lady Catherine. And in a part of the world when I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit -
Fitzwilliam
Pray, miss Elizabeth - I should like to hear something about Darcy. Why don’t you retaliate and expose him? How did he behave and hartfordshire societee?
Elizabeth
Very strangely!
Lady Catherine
Miss Bennett!
Elizabeth
I am sorry, man, but the truth compels me to state that he was unsociable and silent most of the time.
Darcy
I lack the talent for conversing easily with strangers.
Elizabeth
And those who are beneath you are dignity are all strangers. And must for ever remain strangers. Is that not so, Mr. Darcy?
Lady Catherine
You criticizing my nephew, miss Bennett?
Elizabeth
Criticizing Mr. Darcy? Oh, lady Catherine!
Fitzwilliam
Oh, mrs Collins, good morning.
Elizabeth
Charl!
Charlotte
Yes, your ladyship - I had to send one of your footman to the parsonage for the latest 1 - they are their. You see how fortunate I am comment Lizzie.
Elizabeth
Yes, I am beginning to, Charlotte dear.
Fitzwilliam
I say!
Elizabeth
Oh, Charlotte!
Charlotte
You wouldn’t believe, Lizzie, how discontented some of those foolish people are with they’re nice little 2 roomed cottages - but lady Catherine settles all their differences and silences their complaints
Elizabeth
Can well imagine it.
Lady Katharine leaves with Charlotte and Mr. Collins
Elizabeth
Oh, my poor Charlotte!
Fitzwilliam
Good! By Jove, it must be dull being a girl. I have often thought about it - never going anywhere alone - sitting knitting or netting - whatever it is you call it - purses and things - waiting for some chap to make you an offer - E gadd! How does a girl like you put up with it?
Elizabeth
Well, for one thing, I don’t net purses and I’m not waiting for any offers and I actually came to hunsford alone in the mail coach. Now what do you think of that?
Fitzwilliam
You are To intelligint for young lady - that’s your trouble.
Elizabeth
For most of the young gentleman I need - and now colonel, what about your constitutional and my letter?
Fitzwilliam
I say comment miss Elizabeth - do you mind if I ask you something?
Elizabeth
As long as I don’t have to answer -
FitzWilliam
It’s about Darcy - you hurt him just now - I’m fond of the solemn old owl - why are you so prejudiced against him,?
ElizabetH
Prejudiced? I didn’t know I was that period frankly, I just like him. It isn’t very polite to show it - I hoped I did not. I have very good reasons for my - prejudice - as to that - you might ask him why he adopts such a superior attitude.
FitzWilliam
It’s that confounded pride of his. It is always mistaken for conceit. But when you really know him, hes -
Elizabeth
Is there really much to know beyond a supreme self assurance and a disdain for anyone under appear? Such snobbery in a well born man is in comprehensible to me. I always thought only inferior people were snobs.
FitzWilliam
Well, it’s surprising how many Wellborn people are like that - it’s taught them by nursemaids and governesses when they are youngsters - but Mr. Darcy has an awful decent character underneath all that nonsense. He has a heart and a mind to, if you can only get him to open up -
Elizabeth
I shouldn’t bother to try -
Fitz william
Really like to change your opinion about the old silversides - I’m so stupid I have no vocabulary when I went to convince.
Elizabeth
Your a loyal friend, and I like you for it - but I am wondering, nevertheless, if you could really mention one kind of action -
FitzWilliam
Yes, I can tell you 1 -
Elizabeth
Let me hear it.
Fitzwilliam
Well. What would you say if I told you that he stayed tied to London all last Winter - just to keep a friend away from temptation?
Elizabeth
Temptation?
Fitz william
the temptation of making a disastrous marriage.
Elizabeth
Oh!
Fitz William
This friend of his chap named dingley or bingly or something like that - evidently consieved a consuming Passion for designing minx he met at some out landish place in the country.
Elizabeth
That happens so often, doesn’t it?
Fitz William
S, doesn’t it! Of course, she cared nothing for him. Only wanted his name and his fortune. She was aided in her nefarious schemes by a particularly awful specimen of a mother.
Elizabeth
Perhaps it was one of those mothers whose kind intentions are often fatal to those she most wishes to help.
IFitz William
Probably. But in addition to that, the girl had a pair of sisters who must have been bearable she will of spirea poor bingley was as good as caught.
Elizabeth
But Darcy snatched him from the jaws of the she wolves?
Fitzwilliam
Play. O - I only mentioned it to me because I happened to ask him why he’d stayed so unusually long in town. It was really a frightfully decent, unselfish thing for him to have done.
Elizabeth
Indeed it was! And I see I have been underrating Mr. Darcy. I did not know he was made of such heroic stuff.
Fitz William
Yes rather! I say, miss Bennett, are you laughing at me?
Elizabeth
Oh, noe, colonel, not at you!
Darcy
Miss Elizabeth - I wish to speak to you.
Elizabeth
I should have thought it evident that I wish to finish my letter.
Darcy
You’re not very polite. You were such a stickler for politeness in hartfordshire.
Elizabeth
We are most of us sticklers for virtues in other people.
Darcy
Miss Elizabeth -
Elizabeth
Sir? What is it, Mr. Darcy?
Darcy
(Long proposal) ending in :
I have learned that in the bitter miss of my self abasement I love you.
Elizabeth
You expect me to take you seriously? Have you so quickly forgotten the inferiority of my family?
Darcy
I have forgotten nothing about you - I love you.
Elizabeth
Have you considered my unsuitability in the eyes of your exalted world comment Mr. Darcy?
Darcy
I have considered it - and I love you.
Elizabeth
I need not say it again, sir! What am I supposed to reply to this extraordinary harangue? One can scarcely call it an offer of marriage. You do not, I suppose, expect me to feel flattered?
Darcy
But do you expect me to be glad that your family is inferior to mine? Or blame me for being honest and sincere when making the most momentous decision of my life?
Elizabeth
Decision -?
Darcy
It’s come up my dearest. I have decided to ask you to marry me.
Elizabeth
Suppose I should be overwhelmed by this honor.
Darcy
But -
Elizabeth
I ought to congratulate you on overcoming the battle between your unwilling affection in my unworthiness - but you see, I happen to be quite and intrested in your problems -
Darcy
Elizabeth -
Elizabeth
If you were not so lacking in perception commas sir, you might have spared yourself my refusal -
Darcy
You refuse me?
Elizabeth
You might have noticed the fact long ago. I have never hidden it. I neither aspire it nor could I ever return your affection. As for your scruples about marrying into my family - don’t let that ever concern you again.
Darcy
Is that all the reply I am to be honored with? I might perhaps deserve to be told why I have been rejected - and with so little civility.
Elizabeth
I also might deserve to know why you consider my feelings so little while expressing your own.
Darcy
Is - if the manner of my revelation has offended you -
Elizabeth
I’m influenced by something deeper than your manners, Mr. Darcy. I am thinking more of your fine capacity for cruelty.
Mr. Darcy
Cruelty? And went up by demonstrated that capacity?
Elizabeth
Mr. Darcy, have you ever wilfully injured an innocent person?
Darcy
O, you are referring again to my treatment of Mr. Wickham? That still praise on you. The fascination and fury your men exert over superior women has often been a puzzle to me.
Elizabeth
Inferior! Do you always apply that word only to other people?
Darcy
Feel justified in using it towards Mr. Wickham - unless indeed the word CAD might be more descriptive. If the principal evidence against me is based on your faith in the word of a man like him -
Elizabeth
This is unworthy of you sir.
Darcy
No you don’t choose to believe me, but let me most earnestly warn you against him. He is an unprincipled, designing-
Elizabeth
I refuse to listen to you any further but it is not only what you have done to Mr. Wickham, although that would be quite enough - even if I cared for you, and I never could - nothing would induce me to marry the man who has ruined my sister’s life. The sweetest soul ever born! How could you do it? How could you have hurt her having once known her a?! Can you deny that you came between Jane and Charles bingley?
Darcy
Everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister. Towards him I have been wiser than towards myself.
Elizabeth
You talk to me of love - they love each other calmer she and Charles - Jane is one of those who only love once it will kill her, I know it will. You have trodden on a heart.
Darcy
You wish to think badly of me.
Elizabeth
I have no choice.
Darcy
I have made the mistake of being honest with you.
Elizabeth
Honesty is a very overrated virtue. Tact and taste are more agreeable ones.
Darcy
I scruples with regard to your family - were natural.
Elizabeth
And should have been kept yourself. Let us and this distasteful subject - you could not have made your author in any way that would have tempted me to accept it. Mr. Darcy, you are the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry!
Fitzwilliam
come, now cheer up. Why dont you come for a walk with me? You can write your dashed old letter later-
Elizabeth
It is tempting out there - in that dewdrenched world- it’s all so green and wet and shining. No, I shall be firm - I will meet you on your way back, though I shall have to do it by stealth.
