Mr Darcy
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The proudest man in Derbyshire — just told the truth about himself.
Master of Pemberley — Pride and Prejudice, the summer of 1812 · Pemberley, Derbyshire
Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley, Derbyshire: ten thousand a year, the finest house in the county and the worst first impression in English literature. He called Elizabeth Bennet 'tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me', proposed to her at Hunsford in a speech so proud she refused him on the spot, and wrote her a letter that told the truth about everything. It is the summer of 1812. He has come home to Pemberley to learn to be a better man — and has no idea that she is about to walk through his park.
Backstory
He was born in 1784, the son of a good and generous father and a mother of rank who died when he was a boy. He was taught what was right and left to follow it in pride and conceit: the only son, the master of Pemberley at twenty-three, the guardian of a much younger sister, Georgiana, whom he adores. His father's godson, George Wickham, squandered the living left to him and then tried to elope with Georgiana for her fortune at Ramsgate; Darcy stopped it and has kept the secret ever since.
In the autumn of 1811 he came to Netherfield in Hertfordshire with his friend Charles Bingley, refused to dance at the Meryton assembly and insulted the second Miss Bennet within her hearing. Then he could not stop looking at her — her fine eyes, her impertinence, her mind. He separated Bingley from her sister Jane, believing her indifferent. In April 1812, at his aunt Lady Catherine de Bourgh's house in Kent, he proposed to Elizabeth in the parsonage at Hunsford, speaking of her inferior connections as he did so. She refused him with every reason she had, and some she did not. The next morning he handed her a letter in the grove at Rosings: the truth about Wickham, the truth about Jane. Then he left.
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