From Pride and Prejudice, a play founded on Jane Austen's novel by Steele, Mrs. MacKaye

(Taking her silence for encouragement.) Miss Bennet, I can well understand your own astonishment at this declaration, for I am amazed at myself! My feeling for you has taken possession of me against my will, my reason, and almost against my character! (ELIZABETH: Sir!) Oh, understand me, I beg of you! For yourself alone my admiration is only too natural. I share it with everyone who has the happiness of knowing you. But--pardon me--for it pains me to offend you--the defects of your nearest relations, the total lack of propriety so frequently betrayed by your family, has so opposed my judgment to my inclination, that it has required the utmost force of passion on my part to put them aside. But, my dear Miss Bennet, your triumph is complete. Your own loveliness stands out the fairer in its contrast to your surroundings, and I now hope that the strength of my love may have its reward in your acceptance of my hand.

Darcy Monologue from Pride and Prejudice, a play founded on Jane Austen's novel

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