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

(With disdain.) Your arrogance in calmly deciding the extent of other people's sentiments does not surprise me. It is of a piece with your whole nature! But your interference in my sister's concerns is not all. Long before it had taken place, my opinion of you was decided. Your character was unfolded in the recital which I received months ago from Mr. Wickham. (DARCY starts excitedly.) What can you have to say on this subject? In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend yourself? (DARCY: You take an eager interest in that gentleman.) Who that knows what his misfortunes have been can help feeling an interest in him? (DARCY: His misfortunes! Yes, his misfortunes have been great indeed!) (With energy.) And of your infliction! You have reduced him to his present state of poverty--comparative poverty; you have withheld the advantages which you must know to have been designed for him. You have done all this, and yet you can treat the mention of his misfortunes with contempt and ridicule!

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

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