A dance full of imperfections.

The women of the Bennet family are preparing for the dance. Lizzie and Jane talk about Mr Darcy and Wickham and the false story told, Jane is unable to believe it.
In the party, the Bennet family is with the Bingley, but Lizzie shows a certain indifference, is looking to Wickham, but he has not come. Lizzie and Charlotte walk through the mansion; Mr Collins offers to Lizzie dance.

Later, Mr Darcy invited to dance to Lizzie, she accepts but she do not know why has done. They dance, but not with a very pleasant conversation. After the dance, Lizzie meets again with Charlotte to talk about the relationship between Jane and Mr. Bingley. Charlotte believes that Jane needs to act and go to Bingley, because possibly his shyness, prohibited him get his love.

Mr Darcy: May I have the next dance Miss Elizabeth?
Lizzie: You may.
[…]
Lizzie: Did I agree to dance with Mr Darcy?
Charlotte: I dare say you will find him amiable.
Lizzie: It would be most inconvenient since I've sworm to loathe him for all eternity.
[…]
Mr Darcy: Tell me, do you and your sisters very often walk to Meryton?
Lizzie: Yes, we often walk to Meryton. It's a great opportunity to meet new people. When you met us, we'd just had the pleasure of forming a new acquaintance.
Mr Darcy: Mr Wickham's blessed with such happy manners, he's sure of making friends. Whether he's capable of retaining them in less so.
Lizzie: He's been so unfortunate as to lose your friendship. That is irreversible?
Mr Darcy: It is. Why do you ask sueh a question?
Lizzie: To make out your character.
Mr Darcy: What have you discovered?
Lizzie: Very little. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.
Mr Darcy: I hope to afford you more clarity in the future.

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Mr. Darcy confess his shyness

Lizzie goes with Ms. Lucas and Mr. Collins, who are married to Catherine's house who has invited their. While they are talking to each other, Mr. Darcy apears with his leal friend Colonel Firzwilliam. It is because Catherine is Mr. Darcy's aunt. Catherine wants that Lizzie plays the piano because she love music. Lizzie doesn't play very very well and Catherine discriminate asking to Mr. Darcy how is improving Georgiana with the piano, the sister of Mr. Darcy. While Lizzie is playing, Mr, Darcy comes to her slowly and Lizzie says something like " do you want to impressionate me?" But Mr. Darcy confess that he is shy.

Lizzie: You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me? But I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.''

Mr Darcy: I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,'' said Darcy, ``of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.'

Lizzie: My fingers do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.'


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A lie painful.

Mr Collins, a cousin of Lizzie, comes to town in hopes of finding a wife. Has the right to possess everything that has the Bennet family. He wants to marry Jane, but she is already promised, however the mother tells that he could choose Lizzie, which is a good alternative.

In Merinton, Lizzie meets Wichkam, a lieutenant.

On the way to home, they encounter Bingley and Darcy, Darcy is riding the horse, when he sees that Wichkam accompanying them. Wichkam deceives Lizzie, he tells a story of Mr Darcy, that is a lie.

Wickham: I have been connected with his family in a particular manner from my infancy. You may well be surprised, Miss Bennet, at such an assertion, after seeing, as you probably might, the very cold manner of our meeting yesterday. Are you much acquainted with Mr. Darcy?

Lizzie: As much as I ever wish to be, I have spent four days in the same house with him, and I think him very disagreeable. I hope your plans in favour of the - - shire will not be affected by his being in the neighbourhood.

Wickham: Oh! no - it is not for me to be driven away by Mr. Darcy. If he wishes to avoid seeing me, he must go. It is impossible for me to be impartial. But I believe your opinion of him would in general astonish. I could forgive him any thing and every thing, rather than his disappointing the hopes and disgracing the memory of his father.

Lizzie: Ineed!

Wickham: Yes. A military life is not what I was intended for, but circumstances have now made it eligible. The church ought to have been my profession - I was brought up for the church, and I should at this time have been in possession of a most valuable living, had it pleased the gentleman we were speaking of just now.

Lizzie: Good heavens! but how could that be?, How could his will be disregarded? what can have induced him to behave so cruelly?

Wickham: A thorough, determined dislike of me - a dislike which I cannot but attribute in some measure to jealousy.

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Jane is ill.

The Bennet family are having breakfast at ten o'clock.

At that time comes a woman with a letter from Caroline Bingley, the sister of Mr. Bingley, with an invitation for diner together. Jane is going on horseback to the house of Bingley, and with rain. She gets cold she and have to spend the night at Mr. Bingley's home. Jane has pain sore throat, fever and headache, so Lizzie decides to go to see her sister at Netherfield Park and there sees Mr Darcy. Lizzie thanks you to Bingley by care for her sister.

There are later Mr Darcy, Mr. Bingley and his sister next to Lizzie, Elisabeth, and all them have a conversation about what features should to have a woman.

All the Bennet family gathers at the home of Bingley to search Jane and Lizzie. Mr Darcy to help and to say goodbye to Lizzie, he take her hand, to help her climb to the carriage and she becomes perplexed.

Mr Darcy: you are mistaken. I write rather slowly.

Caroline: How many letters you must have occasion to write in the course of the year! Letters of business too! How odious I should think them!

Mr Darcy: It is fortunate, then, that they fall to my lot instead of to yours.
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Bingley: It is amazing to me, how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.

Caroline: All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?

Bingley: Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses. I scarcely know any one who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished

Mr Darcy: Your list of the common extent of accomplishments," said Darcy, "has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished.

Lizzie: You must comprehend a great deal in your idea an accomplished woman.

Mr. Darcy: Yes, I do comprehend a great deal in it.

Caroline: no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tome of her voice, her adress and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.

Mr Darcy: All this she must possess.

Lizzie: I'm no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplisehd women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

Mr. Darcy: Are you so severe upon your own sex as to doubt the possibility of all this?

Lizzie: I never saw such a woman. I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe united.

Bingley: (he smiles)


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Finding out about Bingley's arrival

Mr. Bennet is talking with his wife who is saying to him that Bingley, a new neighbour who is going to rend Netherfield Park, has arrived. Lizzie is seeing through the window how they parents are shouting and she smiles because they are always discussing. While they are talking, Lizzie's sisters are listening behind the door and they can hear that Bingley is rich, gentile, agreeable and that he doesn't have wife. Ms Bennet it's a impassioned, exalted, tense and a bit hysterical person. But this is because she wants the best for her daughters who must get married to have a confortable life after their father's death.

- Mr: What is his name?

- Ms: Bingley.

- Mr: Is he married or single?

- Ms: Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

- Mr: How so? how can it affect them?

- Ms: My dear Mr. Bennet, -replied his wife,- how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them

- Mr: Is that his design in settling here?"

- Ms: Design! nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.

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The first ball, the first contact.

This scene happens in a public ball when Mr. Bingley and company arrive in Netherfield Park. Mr. Bingley have danced with Jane, the eldest sister of Lizzie, and who also has fallen in love with her. Moreover Bingley taks with Mr. Darcy about Lizzie and Darcy rejects to be introduce and to dance with Lizzie, because he thinks that she is not enough nice for him. Lizzie, while is with Mss. Lucas, hear what Mr. Darcy is saying and she becomes a little bit sad but when she has the oportunity to talk with him, finely, she recriminate and reproach to him the critique about her.

Mr. Darcy: You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room,

Mr. Bingley: Oh! she is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld! But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say very agreeable.

Mr. Darcy: Which do you mean? - he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, and coldly said- "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me..
(...)

Elizabeth Bennet: I wonder who first discoverd the power of poetry in driving away love?

Mr. Darcy: I thought that poetry was the fruit of love.

Elizabeth Bennet: Of a fine stout love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclination I'm convinced one poor sonnet will kill it stone dead

Mr. Darcy: So what do you recommend to encourage affection?

Elizabeth Bennet: Dancing. Even if one's partner is barely tolerable.

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