Little Black Book.

I have already read fifty more pages of the novel since I last blogged. I mentioned some topics that recur in that novel that interest me. Character relations are my favorite and in these fifty pages many things happen that relate to it.

“My dear Eliza he must be in love with you, or he would never have called on us in this familiar way” (135).

“More than once did Elizabeth in her ramble within the park unexpectedly meet met Mr. Darcy. She felt all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no else was brought ..” (136).

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” (142).

“What he told me was merely this: that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage ” (139).

"He was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause of all that Jane had suffered and still continued to suffer. He had ruined for awhile every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted” (140).

“I had not been long in Hertfordshire before I saw, in common with others that Bingly preferred your eldest sister to any other young woman in the country” (147).

“Mr. Wickham was to the last so steady that in his will he particularly recommended it to me to promote his advancement in the best manner that his profession might allow, and if he took orders, desired that a valuable family living might be his as soon as it became vacant” (150).

“Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined” (153).

“Elizabeth had frequently unite with Jane in an endeavor to check the imprudence of Catherine and Lydia; but while they were supported by their mother’s indulgence what chance could there be of improvement?” (159).

“I am glad you are back, Lizzy” (165).

The quotes above show that everybody is involved with each other up to the point where they affect important decisions. The biggest shock of the fifty pages was Darcy’s declaration. Austen did give the reader some proof that there was attraction between them, but the reader never expects such a declaration. Those words spoken by Darcy are what reveal the “sneaky" connections of the novel. Because of the declaration and Elizabeth’s rejection comes the letter, where Darcy explains everything. He accepts he does not want Bingly to marry Jane and also the truth about Wickham. How he tried to take advantage of what the Darcies had done for him and how he planned to marry Georgina only for the money.

That letter is like a little black book that reveals the mischievous aspects of the novel and characters. All of them are involved in each other’s life and first impression change. Characters change and so do their feelings. As I said before these relationships are what trigger the novel.