Frankenstein Darcy by Cass Grix

Author:Cass Grix [Grix, Cass]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jane Austen, Frankenstein, Mashup, Pride and Prejudice Variation, Darcy
Publisher: Cass Grix
Published: 2016-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Elizabeth let him in the room; it would have been impolite to refuse. She sat down on a couch and looked up at him.

“Mrs. Collins said you were ill,” he said bluntly.

“A headache only. I am fine.”

“Your injury has not continued to bother you?”

For a moment she did not know what he was referring to, then she remembered her fall at Netherfield. “No, absolutely not. I rarely have headaches. I believe I am completely recovered.”

“I am glad.” He sat down for a few moments across from her and then getting up walked about the room.

Elizabeth was surprised by his agitation but did not comment.

After a silence of several minutes he came towards her and blurted out, “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

Elizabeth was so astonished, she was momentarily silent, unable to respond.

He must have seen her silence as encouragement, so he continued. “I believe I started falling in love with you at the Meryton Assembly and by the time you came to Netherfield, I was completely smitten. I knew it was foolishness. I knew your family situation was beneath my own and that my family and friends would disapprove. I told myself that what I felt for you was merely a passing fancy, a momentary lust, but I found myself thinking of you night and day. I could not tear my eyes away. It was not only your physical beauty that enchanted me. It was your mind, your courage, your laughter. You saw how I hovered, anxious to hear every word from your mouth.

“I was a man obsessed. My feelings for you were unreasonable and unrelenting. The ball at Netherfield was excruciating. Internally I was at war with myself. I wanted to sweep you into the gardens and declare myself then, but I knew it was wrong and that I would regret succumbing to my passions. I left Hertfordshire, vowing never to return.”

Good heavens, Elizabeth thought. Mr. Darcy loved her? Once she was over the shock of his disclosure, she was momentarily sorry for the pain her rejection would cause, but as he continued to talk, she grew increasingly offended by his verbiage.

He said, “My attachment to you was so strong that I could not forget you. And when I saw you here, I knew that I could fight my love no longer. I hope you will now put me out of my misery and reward my undying love by accepting my hand in marriage.”

As he spoke, Elizabeth could easily see that he had no doubt of a favourable answer.

“Please speak, dearest Elizabeth, and relieve my fears before they overtake me.”

He spoke of apprehension and anxiety, but his countenance expressed real security, which exasperated her.

She had never thought Mr. Darcy to be similar to Mr. Collins, but they were both single-minded, arrogant men who thought all they had to do was ask and a woman would immediately agree to give up her future.

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