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Thursday, April 25, 2013
So this is the chapter I hate reading, also I have been exhausted with end of the school year stoofs so please excuse this delayed post as per my usual lateness.
Okay so Lizzy decides the next morning to go for a walk but chooses to walk on a different walk because she doesn't want to run into Darcy. She gets to a point where it sort of looks over the property and sees a man coming towards her, out of fear that it is Darcy she starts to walk away, but the person calls her name and she has to stop. Turns out it was Darcy. He tells her he has been walking around looking for her all morning, thrusts a letter at her, requests that she read it, and walks away.
The first thing that Darcy addresses is his involvement in separating Bingley and Jane. He says that at first he didn't think it was a big deal because Bingley had been "in love before" and he had apparently fallen just as easily out of love as he had fallen into it in the past. Then when he hears the rumors that they are practically already engaged he starts watching them and realizes that Bingley did appear to be a little further into this relationship than he normally would be but he also didn't think that Jane really returned his feelings. From where Darcy was standing Jane was just half-heartedly flirting with Bingley.
So Darcy talks to Bingley's sisters who he thinks have Bingley's best interests at heart (even though they are just trying to hook Miss Bingley up with Darcy) and so they put together the list of reasons why Bingley shouldn't marry Jane. After the whole list had been put to him (including how insane most of the rest of the family acts on a regular basis) Bingley is still set on marring her, that is until Darcy told him that Jane didn't return his feelings. Bingley relies so completely and loyally on Darcy's judgement that he then agreed to stay in London. Darcy also informs Lizzy that he had known that Jane was in London and had made sure that Bingley didn't find out about it because he believed he was protecting Bingley. Much like how Lizzy will leave this whole part of the letter out when she talks to Jane later because she doesn't want to hurt Jane.
Anyway Darcy says he didn't mean to hurt Jane or Lizzy and admits that the dishonor that the rest of her family seems to portray with pride has evaded Jane and Lizzy and has left them respectable and awesome. Then Darcy continues to tell the horror story of Wickham.
Wickham comes from a decent father who had quickly become good friends with and worked with Darcy Senior, and a mother who's luxurious lifestyle left the family poor and unable to fully take care of baby Wickham. As a result of this and baby Wickham's amazing ability to hide his real self and be an agreeable, likable guy Darcy Senior puts a lot of money into baby Wickham, he even sends him to good schools to receive a "gentleman's education." Because Darcy S. thought that Wickham would become an ordained minister in the church he left baby Darcy instructions to support Wickham in this pursuit and Darcy is willing to do so even though he knows that Wickham really needs to not be a pastor. So after Darcy S. and Wickham S. both die baby Wickham tells baby Darcy that he isn't joining the church (which Darcy was okay with) but that he is going to pursue law. Darcy gives him an agreed about amount of money in order to give Wickham the benefit of the doubt while also trying to honor his father's wishes. So Wickham goes off blows all of his money (never once actually pursuing any form of law education) and then when he is in massive debt comes running back to Darcy. Wickham claims he will be joining the church after all and asks Darcy for the money from the original deal, Darcy denies and Wickham commences with calling Darcy every name in the book and trying to blacken his name (much like what he does to Lizzy). It gets worse.
When Miss Darcy was only fifteen they sent her with a lady who ran a summer seaside resort named Miss Younge. Miss Younge had a secret plan set up with Wickham so soon he showed up and played with Miss Darcy's feelings so much that she believed that she was in love and even agreed to elope with him. She was young and stupid and she told her brother something about what was about to happen and so Darcy books it down there and gets there two days before they are supposed to elope. Miss Darcy tells her brother everything and Darcy gets very angry. He and his cousin (the Colonel) fire Miss Younge. Darcy also writes a very angry letter to Wickham who is conveniently no where to be found. Wickham was not only after Miss Darcy's money but after revenge on Darcy who he believed had deprived him of his inheritance.
The fact that Darcy told Lizzy this is proof of his trust in her and his feelings for her because it is something that very few people know about and he is relying on her keeping it a secret. This is important because her keeping this a secret comes back to haunt both of them in the long run.
He ends the letter with "God bless you" and signs it Fitzwilliam Darcy (which I only include because of my love for the name Fitzwilliam).
I am going to leave you here for now because this is a lot to take in without adding Elizabeth's feelings on it which turn out to be all over the place. This is a crazy chapter because it just sort of drops the truth on you and allows Darcy fans to be like "woot woot!" Anyway I will be getting back hopefully tomorrow with the response chapters because classes have slowed down a little bit for now since there are only like 11 days left (Thank You Jesus!) and I will have less to worry about.
Please remember to share this blog, or Google+ it or whatever. You can follow me on the tweeter at @KauruRoss for update alerts. Thanks for reading I hope I didn't make too many of you angry with not posting when I was supposed to, y'all should be used to it by now... sorry.
Forever your untimely writer,
Ross
Okay so Lizzy decides the next morning to go for a walk but chooses to walk on a different walk because she doesn't want to run into Darcy. She gets to a point where it sort of looks over the property and sees a man coming towards her, out of fear that it is Darcy she starts to walk away, but the person calls her name and she has to stop. Turns out it was Darcy. He tells her he has been walking around looking for her all morning, thrusts a letter at her, requests that she read it, and walks away.
The first thing that Darcy addresses is his involvement in separating Bingley and Jane. He says that at first he didn't think it was a big deal because Bingley had been "in love before" and he had apparently fallen just as easily out of love as he had fallen into it in the past. Then when he hears the rumors that they are practically already engaged he starts watching them and realizes that Bingley did appear to be a little further into this relationship than he normally would be but he also didn't think that Jane really returned his feelings. From where Darcy was standing Jane was just half-heartedly flirting with Bingley.
Anyway Darcy says he didn't mean to hurt Jane or Lizzy and admits that the dishonor that the rest of her family seems to portray with pride has evaded Jane and Lizzy and has left them respectable and awesome. Then Darcy continues to tell the horror story of Wickham.
Wickham comes from a decent father who had quickly become good friends with and worked with Darcy Senior, and a mother who's luxurious lifestyle left the family poor and unable to fully take care of baby Wickham. As a result of this and baby Wickham's amazing ability to hide his real self and be an agreeable, likable guy Darcy Senior puts a lot of money into baby Wickham, he even sends him to good schools to receive a "gentleman's education." Because Darcy S. thought that Wickham would become an ordained minister in the church he left baby Darcy instructions to support Wickham in this pursuit and Darcy is willing to do so even though he knows that Wickham really needs to not be a pastor. So after Darcy S. and Wickham S. both die baby Wickham tells baby Darcy that he isn't joining the church (which Darcy was okay with) but that he is going to pursue law. Darcy gives him an agreed about amount of money in order to give Wickham the benefit of the doubt while also trying to honor his father's wishes. So Wickham goes off blows all of his money (never once actually pursuing any form of law education) and then when he is in massive debt comes running back to Darcy. Wickham claims he will be joining the church after all and asks Darcy for the money from the original deal, Darcy denies and Wickham commences with calling Darcy every name in the book and trying to blacken his name (much like what he does to Lizzy). It gets worse.
The fact that Darcy told Lizzy this is proof of his trust in her and his feelings for her because it is something that very few people know about and he is relying on her keeping it a secret. This is important because her keeping this a secret comes back to haunt both of them in the long run.
He ends the letter with "God bless you" and signs it Fitzwilliam Darcy (which I only include because of my love for the name Fitzwilliam).
I am going to leave you here for now because this is a lot to take in without adding Elizabeth's feelings on it which turn out to be all over the place. This is a crazy chapter because it just sort of drops the truth on you and allows Darcy fans to be like "woot woot!" Anyway I will be getting back hopefully tomorrow with the response chapters because classes have slowed down a little bit for now since there are only like 11 days left (Thank You Jesus!) and I will have less to worry about.
Please remember to share this blog, or Google+ it or whatever. You can follow me on the tweeter at @KauruRoss for update alerts. Thanks for reading I hope I didn't make too many of you angry with not posting when I was supposed to, y'all should be used to it by now... sorry.
Forever your untimely writer,
Ross
