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	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Part 4 Mr. Darcy: Miss Bennet! Forgive me for not receiving you properly just now. You were not leaving? Elizabeth Bennet: Yes, I'm afraid we must. Mr. Darcy: I hope you're not displeased with Pemberley. Elizabeth Bennet: No. Mr. Darcy: Then you approve of it?
	Unknown Episode: Elizabeth Bennet: Lady Catherine, in marrying your nephew, I should not consider my self as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman, I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Bingley: I wouldn't be as fastidious as you are for a kingdom.
	Unknown Episode: Miss Bingley: And now the mother! Are we to be invaded by every Bennet in the country? Oh, too much to be borne. Mr. Hurst: Oh, lord! Mr. Bingley: Mrs. Bennet, you are very welcome. Mr. Bingley: I hope you do not find Miss Bennet worse than you expected. Mrs. Bennet: Indeed I do, sir. She is very ill indeed, and suffers a vast deal... Mrs. Bennet: ...though with the greatest patience in the world, for she has the sweetest temper, Mr. Bingley. But she is a great deal too ill to be moved. Mrs. Bennet: We must trespass, a little longer, on your kindness. Mr. Bingley: But of course. Miss Bingley: Miss Bennet will receive every possible attention, ma'am, I assure you. Mrs. Bennet: You are very good. Mrs. Bennet: Well, you have a sweet room here! I think you will never want to leave Netherfield, now you are come here. Mr. Bingley: I believe I should be happy to live in the country forever! Wouldn't you, Darcy? Mr. Darcy: You would? You don't find the society somewhat confined and unvarying for your taste? Mrs. Bennet: "Confined and unvarying?" Indeed, it is not, sir! The country is a vast deal pleasanter than town, whatever *you* may say about it! Elizabeth Bennet: Mama, you mistake Mr. Darcy's meaning. Mrs. Bennet: Do I? Do I? He seems to think the country nothing at all! Elizabeth Bennet: Mama! Mrs. Bennet: "Confined!" "Unvarying!" I would have him know we dine with four-and-twenty families!
	Unknown Episode: Sir William Lucas: No doubt you attend assemblies at St. James's Court, Miss Bingley? Miss Bingley: We go but rarely, sir. Sir William Lucas: Indeed, I am surprised. I should be happy to introduce you there, you know, at any time when I'm in town. Miss Bingley: You are too kind, sir. Sir William Lucas: [feeling awkward, but not quite sure why] Well, well, good, good! Capital, capital! Miss Bingley: Insufferable conceit! To imagine that we'd need *his* assistance in society. Mrs. Hurst: I am sure he is a very good kind of man, Caroline. Miss Bingley: And I am sure he kept a very good kind of *shop* before his elevation to the Knighthood.
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Bennet: I should have taken better care of you all. Mr. Bennet: The satisfaction of prevailing upon one of the most worthless young men in Britain might then have rested in its proper place. As it is, the thing is done - with extraordinarily little inconvenience to myself. When you take into account what I shall save on Lydia's board and pocket allowance, I am scarcely ten pounds a year worse off. Mr. Bennet: I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don't despair; it'll pass, and no doubt more quickly than it should.
	Unknown Episode: Jane Bennet: No, I do assure you, this news does not affect me, truly, Lizzy. Jane Bennet: I am glad of one thing: that he doesn't bring any ladies. If it is merely a shooting party, we shall not see him often. Not that I am afraid of myself; but I dread other people's remarks, Lizzy. Elizabeth Bennet: Then I shall venture none... however sorely I am tempted. After all, it is hard that the poor man can't come to a house he's legally rented without raising all this speculation. Jane Bennet: That is just what I think. Elizabeth Bennet: Then we shall leave him to himself. Jane Bennet: Yes. Jane Bennet: Stop it, Lizzy!
	Unknown Episode: Mrs. Bennet: Oh, sit up straight, Jane! Pull your shoulders back! A man could go a long way without seeing a figure like yours, if you could only make the most of it!
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Bingley: [to a manservant] Bring me my horse! At once! Quickly, man! Mr. Bingley: [Mrs. Bennet is still in her night-clothes as she runs to Jane's room and cries out in panic:] Mrs. Bennet: Jane! Jane! Oh, my dear Jane! Jane Bennet: Oh, what is the matter? Mrs. Bennet: He is come! He is come! Jane Bennet: [bewildered] Who has come? Mrs. Bennet: Mr. Bingley, of course! Make haste, make haste, hurry down! Oh gracious, you're not all dressed! Mrs. Bennet: Hill! Hill! Oh, where is Hill? Mrs. Bennet: Never mind, Sarah. You must come to Miss Bennet this moment. Come along, girl, and help her up with her gown, never mind Miss Lizzy's hair! Kitty: Mama, mama! Where is my new locket that Lydia brought me from London? Mary, have you seen my new locket? Mary: I shouldn't know it if I did see it. I care nothing for such baubles. Mrs. Bennet: Oh, never mind your locket, girl! Jane, steady yourself. He is here, he is here! Jane Bennet: Mama, Lizzy and I will be down as soon as we can. Send Kitty down, she is forwarder than any of us. Mrs. Bennet: Oh, hang Kitty! What is she to do with it? Mrs. Bennet: Jane, where is your muslin dress, dear? Oh, Hill, Hill! Where is Hill?
	Unknown Episode: Sir William Lucas: [to Elizabeth as she's trying to pass] Oh, Miss Eliza, why are you not dancing? - Mr. Darcy, allow me to present this young lady to you as a very desirable partner. You cannot refuse to dance, I am sure, when so much beauty is before you. Elizabeth Bennet: Indeed, Sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. Please don't suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner. Mr. Darcy: I would be very happy if you'd do me the honour of dancing with me, Miss Bennet. Elizabeth Bennet: Thank you, but excuse me... - I am... not inclined to dance. Sir William Lucas: Come, come, why not, when you see that Mr. Darcy has no objection, although he dislikes the amusement so much in general. Elizabeth Bennet: [sardonically] Mr. Darcy is all politeness. Sir William Lucas: He is, he is! And why should he not be, considering the inducement, for who could object to such a partner! Eh, Darcy? Elizabeth Bennet: I beg you would excuse me. Sir William Lucas: Oh, well, well... Sir William Lucas: Oh, capital, Lydia, capital!
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Darcy: Miss Bennet! Elizabeth Bennet: Mr Darcy. Elizabeth Bennet: I am come to see my sister. Mr. Darcy: On foot? Elizabeth Bennet: As you see. Elizabeth Bennet: Would you be so kind as to take me to her?
	Unknown Episode: Jane Bennet: And Mr Darcy may improve on closer acquaintance. Elizabeth Bennet: You mean he'll be in a humour to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men? "She is tolerable I suppose, but she's not handsome enough to tempt me". Jane Bennet: It was very wrong of him to say so. Elizabeth Bennet: Aye, a capital offence!
	Unknown Episode: Charlotte Lucas: [discussing Mr Collins] Perhaps I should invite him to dine with us this evening. Lydia: Aye, do, do. Take him away and feed him, for he's been in high dudgeon all morning.
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Bennet: Are you out of your senses to be accepting this man?
	Unknown Episode: Elizabeth Bennet: It is a beautiful instrument. Georgiana Darcy: My brother gave it to me. He is so good and I don't deserve it. Elizabeth Bennet: I believe you do. Your brother thinks you do and, as you know, he is never wrong. Now, it is your turn. Elizabeth Bennet: I absolutely insist. Georgiana Darcy: I will play, but please do not make me sing.
	Unknown Episode: Elizabeth Bennet: And of all this I might have been mistress.
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Bingley: [furious] You tell me now she was in London all those months and you concealed it from me? Mr. Darcy: Yes. I can offer no justification. It was an arrogant presumption based on a failure to recognise your true feelings and Miss Bennet's. I should never have interfered. It was very wrong of me, Bingley, and I apologise. Mr. Bingley: [stunned] You admit that you were in the wrong? Mr. Darcy: Utterly and completely. Mr. Bingley: Then... I have your blessing? Mr. Darcy: [amused] Do you need my blessing? Mr. Bingley: No. But I should like to know I have it all the same.
	Unknown Episode: Miss Caroline Bingley: I fear this latest escapade may have lessened your regard for her "fine eyes". Mr. Darcy: Not at all. They were brightened by the exercise.
	Unknown Episode: Elizabeth Bennet: I am no longer astonished at you knowing only *six* accomplished women, Mr Darcy, I rather wonder at your knowing *any*.
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Bennet: An unhappy alternative lies before you. Your mother will never see you again if you do *not* marry Mr Collins, and *I* will never see you again if you *do*.
	Unknown Episode: Elizabeth Bennet: Mary, pass the potatoes to your aunt Gardiner. Mary: Hmm? Kitty: Oh, never mind, I'll do it. Mrs. Gardiner: Thank you, Kitty. Kitty: And that's the first kind word I've had from anyone since Lydia went away. I don't see why, it's not as though I had done anything naughty. And I don't think Lydia has done anything so dreadful either. Jane Bennet: Kitty! Please!
	Unknown Episode: Jane Bennet: I must take mama her tea. Mr. Bennet: She still keeps her state above stairs? Lends such an elegance to our situation.
	Unknown Episode: Mrs. Bennet: [discussing Darcy] He slighted poor Lizzy you know, flatly refused to stand up with her. Mr. Bennet: Slighted my Lizzy, did he? Elizabeth Bennet: I didn't care for him either, Father, so it's of little matter.
	Unknown Episode: Mrs. Bennet: From Netherfield? Oh, Jane, well, what does it say? Jane Bennet: It's from Miss Bingley. Mrs. Bennet: Oh, well, that is a good sign, too. Give it to me! - My dear friend... there now... dine with Louisa and me today... la-di-da, la-di-da, la-di-da... as the gentlemen are to dine with the officers. - Oh, that's unlucky! Still you must go and make what you can out of it. - Yours ever, Caroline Bingley. - Very elegant hand. Jane Bennet: May I have the carriage, Father? Mrs. Bennet: The carriage? No indeed! You must go on horseback for it looks like rain. Then you will have to stay the night! Jane Bennet: Mother! Mrs. Bennet: Oh, why do you look at me like that? Would you go all the way to Netherfield and back without seeing Mr Bingley? No indeed. - You will go on Nelly, that will do very well, indeed.
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Bingley: All young ladies are accomplished. They sing, they draw, they dance, speak French and German, cover screens and I know not what. Mr. Darcy: But not half a dozen would satisfy my notion of an accomplished woman. Miss Bingley: Oh, certainly. No woman can be really esteemed accomplished who does not also possess a certain something in her air, in her manner of walking, in the tone of her voice, her address and expressions. Mr. Darcy: And to all this she must yet add something more substantial in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. Elizabeth Bennet: I'm no longer surprised at you knowing only six accomplished women, Mr Darcy. I rather wonder at your knowing any.
	Unknown Episode: Miss Bingley: Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example and take a turn about the room. It's so refreshing. - Will you not join us, Mr Darcy? Mr. Darcy: That would defeat the object. Miss Bingley: What do you mean, sir? What on earth can he mean? Elizabeth Bennet: I think we would do better not to inquire. Miss Bingley: Nay, we insist on knowing your meaning, sir. Mr. Darcy: Well, that your figures appear to best advantage when walking and that I might best admire them from my present position. Miss Bingley: Shocking, abominable reply! How shall we punish him, Miss Eliza? Elizabeth Bennet: Nothing so easy. Tease him, laugh at him. Miss Bingley: Laugh at Mr. Darcy? Impossible, he is a man without fault.
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Darcy: She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt me.
	Unknown Episode: Lady Catherine: I am most seriously displeased.
	Unknown Episode: Elizabeth Bennet: I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.
	Unknown Episode: Mr. Darcy: I shall conquer this, I shall.