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# Excerpt from Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice
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- Published: 2008-02-26T12:55:42.000Z
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- Description: As I was browsing the channels during some late night TV, I ended up watching the end of BBC’s Pride and Prejudice production. I believe this...
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As I was browsing the channels during some late night TV, I ended up watching the end of BBC’s [Pride and Prejudice ](http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/pandp12.txt?ref=kudithipudi.org)production. I believe this is one of the best productions of Pride and Prejudice. Here is a literal copy and paste from one of the last scenes in the book. Lizzy is asking her father’s blessing for her wedding with Darcy.

Her father was walking about the room, looking grave and  
anxious. "Lizzy," said he, "what are you doing? Are you out  
of your senses, to be accepting this man? Have not you always  
hated him?"  
  
How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had  
been more reasonable, her expressions more moderate! It would  
have spared her from explanations and professions which it was  
exceedingly awkward to give; but they were now necessary, and  
she assured him, with some confusion, of her attachment to  
Mr. Darcy.  
  
"Or, in other words, you are determined to have him. He is  
rich, to be sure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine  
carriages than Jane. But will they make you happy?"  
  
"Have you any other objection," said Elizabeth, "than your  
belief of my indifference?"  
  
"None at all. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort  
of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."  
  
"I do, I do like him," she replied, with tears in her eyes,  
"I love him. Indeed he has no improper pride. He is perfectly  
amiable. You do not know what he really is; then pray do not  
pain me by speaking of him in such terms."  
  
"Lizzy," said her father, "I have given him my consent.  
He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare  
refuse anything, which he condescended to ask. I now give it  
to \_you\_, if you are resolved on having him. But let me advise  
you to think better of it. I know your disposition, Lizzy.  
I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless  
you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him  
as a superior. Your lively talents would place you in the  
greatest danger in an unequal marriage. You could scarcely  
escape discredit and misery. My child, let me not have the  
grief of seeing \_you\_ unable to respect your partner in life.  
You know not what you are about."  
  
Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her  
reply; and at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was  
really the object of her choice, by explaining the gradual  
change which her estimation of him had undergone, relating her  
absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a  
day, but had stood the test of many months' suspense, and  
enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer  
her father's incredulity, and reconcile him to the match.  
  
"Well, my dear," said he, when she ceased speaking, "I have no  
more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could  
not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to anyone less worthy."