Mr Darcy.

“You must know… surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I’d scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”

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Mr. Darcy

 Miss Elizabeth. I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you… I had to see you. I have fought against my better judgment, my family’s expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance. All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony. 

“All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony.”

My Ladyship,

I must, first and before engaging you of my recent enterprises, give you my thanks for your taking the great troubles it must have been to travel to Longbourn, most specifically to the Bennet estate. It has proven indispensable in my affairs. I hope to not attribute to you undue distress—You have been of the utmost use and I have taken your most sincere considerations into perspective— and now I must move to the object of this letter. I write with expedience concerning the state of affairs between Miss Elizabeth Bennet and myself, locked and on the brink of matrimony. The word has been written thus—I have renewed my efforts and affections towards Elizabeth, and at length they have finally been returned. You must by now know, and if not, I thus inform you, that the Bennets are in good standing once again with the world—One of the youngest Miss Bennets is in successful wedlock with Mr. Wickham, and I hope your fears to be calmed, though I know it to the contrary. There is more fortune and happiness to be found in Elizabeth than to ever be had elsewhere, I assure you. These arrangements stated, therefore, I must beg your presence at Pemberley estate to wait on its newest mistress with reborn and true attentiveness and respect. If you are still taken with objections, I can henceforth offer you nothing. This, aunt, is a final and sure thing; and, if you should charge me with impudence, with negligence towards my name, or with insensibility, I can only answer with harsh honesty. With me stands Miss Elizabeth Bennet— by our next meeting, Mrs. Elizabeth Darcy.

Fitzwilliam Darcy.