Books As I See Them

Dearest readers, my deepest apologies to any who have been loyally awaiting my return, there are not many of you but there may be a few. I have been busy with college and life and the pleasures of renting a house and have been unable or unmotivated to write. I have also been busy trying to breath life into my own novel which is many years in the making and has of late been demanding my attention. So I am very sorry for having not kept up my end of the bargain.
For those of you who have just stumbled onto this blog, WELCOME! I am crazy but somewhat educated in the art of enjoying and ripping apart literature, and I am happy to have your audience.

Now on to Chapter 43!

This chapter starts off part three or volume the third depending on which edition you are or are not reading. It begins by welcoming us to Pemberley. Darcy's home is not just a home it is an estate. This being said it is filled with all of the best of things that should be in an estate at his particular time era and nothing extra. It has large parks and walks as well as a natural stream and woods. The house is described much like Darcy himself as handsome and stone walls, it also sits on a hill (add snarky get off you high horse metaphor here). Anyway to say the least there are immediate and immense "oooh"s and "aaaahhhh"s from Lizzy and her companions as they take in all that is the Pemberley house. Lizzy makes several mental notes about the fact that all of what she is currently seeing and loving could have been hers. Instead of coming to his house as a visiting intruder she could have been showing it off to her friends and family, then she remembers that Darcy being who he is, she could not have brought her family anywhere near Darcy's house married or not.

Then we meet the housekeeper. The housekeeper makes me smile. She is described as being civil and "much less fine" then Lizzy would have expected. In my mind I picture an older woman with gray hair and a strict face.

However, once anyone mentions Darcy she becomes very animated. She practically gushes about how handsome he is and how awesome and how amazing. And Lizzy is like "okay maybe I know a different Darcy?" you know except for the fact that she is looking a picture of him so there is really just a "hmm maybe she's just crazy" moment. Lizzy then starts getting curious. After the housekeeper brings up that she has never heard a "cross word from him" Lizzy is mentally humming with questions. This is just the beginning of her second guessing her decision to turn down Darcy's offer, when she realizes that maybe he is not the cool, jerk of a guy that she had thought he was.

The housekeeper goes on to say that though others call Darcy a proud man she sees only a hard working man who is simply not as involved with doing nothing as all the other crazy young men are. Darcy is also amazing when it comes to his little sister though Miss Darcy herself is a bit odd and shy. [ As a side note at one point they are shown to Miss Darcy's rooms and Elizabeth makes a funny statement about the artwork, they had been looking at the professional artwork on the walls and such when Lizzy (mentally) says this "...but Elizabeth knew nothing of the art: and from such as had been already visible below, willingly turned to look at some drawings of Miss Darcy's, in crayons, whose subjects were usually more interesting, and also more intelligible."] There is also a moment when she sees a painting of Darcy in which he is smiling. While she is still contemplating his smile they go outside for a walk and who should arrive but Mr. Darcy, in the flesh. So much for reliable servants Elizabeth would now have to face the man she had turned down, the man she was only just beginning to know.

Darcy the sucker for his own pain that he is immediately starts talking to her. He asks every question he can think to ask attempting to pull her into conversation and then when he runs out of things to say he walks away. OH MY GOSH BABBBBBBYYYYYYYYY! Sorry everyone this is where my heart begins to break a little I love this man so much. Anyway Lizzy starts beratting herself for coming, starts getting angry with Darcy because obviously he was just trying to make himself look good, why else would he care about how her family was doing? Right? She is so utterly confused with his easy gentlemen-like manners that she ends up over thinking things way too much.

So after a stroll through some of the woods they come back to the house and on their way back Darcy meets up with them and asks for an introduction to the Gardiners and Lizzy introduces them. Darcy is somewhat surprised, whether because she was related to fashionable descent people, or because they were in fact fashionable, descent people I'm not entirely sure. Regardless he is still being a perfect gentleman and Elizabeth actually ends up blushing. Mr. Darcy invites Mr. Gardiner to come and go fishing on the lands anytime he would like. Then to Lizzy's complete amazement Darcy asks if he can introduce her to his sister. So with those plans made they all get in their carriage and leave and the second they get on the move Elizabeth's Aunt and Uncle start with the "he's perfect and charming and awesome! how come you told us he was a jerk" lectures and Elizabeth mainly tries to make herself not look like an idiot before drifting into her own world.

And that's the end of this chapter and it was longer than anticipated so here is where I leave you. I will hopefully be back on later this week with more because we are so so so close to all of the drama so keep coming back! Also follow me on twitter @KauruRoss and on Tumblr at kauruross.tumblr.com for updates and funny things that happen to me on a regular basis! I'll speak at you soon,

Your Loving Writing Corespondent,

Ross

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