Time at Lady Catherine s

During Christmas time, the Gardiners, come visit the Bennets. Ms. Gardiner invites Jane to London with them so that she could have a chance of seeing Mr. Bingley, contrary to Elizabeth who believes that Mr. Darcy and Bingley s sisters will keep them apart. According to Jane s aunt, she does not blame anybody for his absence since women’s “vanity often deceives” them, and agrees with Elizabeth on Darcy being a spoiled and selfish men. In one of Wickham s visits to Longbourn, she tells Ms. Gardiner about how Darcy fooled him and his father s petition. Ms Gardiner believes this since she used to live near Darcy s estate, Pemberly, and had heard stuff about his pride. Although Mr. Wickham had appeared to be a good man to Ms. Gardiner, she believes it would not be the best choice for Elizabeth since neither of them posses a lot of money and if they marry they would be terrible poor. Elizabeth does not know how to react, and tells her that they are only friends, but that she will distant him. The Gardiners return to London and after a period of time Elizabeth receives two letters, one from Charlotte, begging her to visit her on March with Sir William, and another one from Jane, telling her that she had visited Mr. Bingley but due to her sisters, she was not able to see him until six weeks after her visit to him. In response, Elizabeth tells Ms. Gardiner that Wickham has left to chase a young girl with a large fortune inherited from his dead grandfather. Then, Elizabeth starts her journey to Hunsford to visit Charlotte, and stops in London for a night with Sir William and his daughter. During her stay Elizabeth notices that Jane has not fully recovered, and is still sad about Mr. Bingley. She then comments this with Ms. Gardiner, who starts talking about Wickham. Elizabeth tells her that he has run to seduce the rich girl and Ms. Gardiner invites her to vacation with them the next summer so that she could forget about Wickham. When they arrive Elizabeth notices the awkwardness around Collins but, despite her thoughts, her friendship with Charlotte has not changed. During her stay Mr. Collins allures about his relationship with Lady Catherine De Bourgh and all his connections to her. The next night they are invited to a dinner at Lady Catherine s. During her visit there, Mr. Collins does not stop showing off Lady Catherines wealth, “From the entrance-hall, of which Mr. Collins pointed out, with a rapturous air, the fine proportion and the finished ornaments”. Elizabeth suddenly starts believing everything that Wickham had told them about the De Bourgh, the aspects of Miss De Bourgh and her mother where exactly like he had described. During the dinner she does not show herself afraid of Lady Catherine by accepting the opinions and critics from her, like the rest of the people present. Sir William stays only a week, although Elizabeth and Maria stay longer. Two weeks later Mr. Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam arrive to Lady Catherine s for Easter. During this time, Lady Catherine visits constantly Charlotte to advice her how to handle her house. Elizabeth is friendly to Colonel Fitzwilliam, although she is still rude to Mr. Darcy and tries to figure out whether he was keeping Jane apart from Mr. Bingley, but Darcy pretends he does not know what she was talking about. They then get invited on Easter to Lady Catherines dinner, where Elizabeth spends an evening speaking with Colonel Fitzwilliam, making Lady Catherine angry and separating them only to then criticize Elizabeth piano skills. Darcy then approaches to intimate Elizabeth, according to her, but he tries to avoid speaking to her since he knows she will embarrass him. Darcy is right as she then embarrasses him saying that his presence at the first dance was not tolerated by many people since he did not dance with anybody and lacked speaking skills. Then Mr. Darcy makes constant visits to Charlottes house to see Elizabeth, although he avoids to speak or make “society”. During her time at Charlottes parsonage, Elizabeth was used to walks, in which usually she meet Darcy, who was used to walking her back to the parsonage and asking weird questions to her. One day she found Fitzwilliam walking and they started to talk about Mr. Darcy, how he enjoyed power and how he had persuaded Mr. Bingley to leave Jane since the marriage would not have been indicated.