Pride and Prejudice and Kitties by Jane Austen

Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2012-12-31T11:00:00+00:00

This Mr. Darcy considered sufficient encouragement, and he went on with gentlemanly trills and cat calls to communicate what he had long felt. He was most articulate, but not only about his passionate attachment to Elizabeth. He also dwelt with warmth on all the reasons their union was a degradation to him by virtue of Elizabeth’s common pedigree on her mother’s side, and inferior connections, particularly her rat-hunting uncle in Cheap-side. He made it abundantly clear that if he could have resisted her, he certainly would have. But, as he had not been successful in repressing his feelings, he fervently hoped she would put him out of his misery and accept his paw in marriage.

Arching her back, Elizabeth composed herself as best she could. She then made it clear that though she wished she could feel grateful for the honor of his offer, she must refuse him.

Leaping up to the mantle, Mr. Darcy stared at her in disbelief.

“Cat got your tongue?” asked Elizabeth archly.

Darcy recollected himself. “And this is all the reply which I am to have the honor of expecting?! I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little endeavor at civility, I am thus rejected.”

“And I,” replied Elizabeth, “might as well inquire why, with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that your regard for me rubbed your fur the wrong way! And what about the unhappiness you caused my dear sister Jane by separating her from Mr. Bingley?”

Mr. Darcy did not deny it.

“And the injuries you inflicted on poor Wickham?” went on Elizabeth.

“His injuries!” snarled Mr. Darcy. “Oh, it was a cat-fight indeed. But Wickham has no injuries to resent.”

“You have deprived him of at least six of his nine lives, and of that independence which is both the will and wish of every cat.”

“And this,” Mr. Darcy said after a pause, “is your opinion of me?”

Elizabeth hissed.

A moment later, mortified and ashamed by what his feelings had been, and by Elizabeth’s censure and scorn, Mr. Darcy hastily quit the room.

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