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From their first moment of acquaintance, Lizzy Bennet did not like Mr. Darcy. She finds him proud, haughty and arrogant, while Darcy looks down on her family as beneath him. She has sworn to never dance with the man--only to find herself doing just that at the Netherfield Ball. The two match wits as they struggle to puzzle each other out.
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START: Lizzy: Behold the earnest strivings of a young lady attempting to be thought “accomplished.”
Darcy: You are… joking.
Lizzy: You have such a satirical eye, Mr. Darcy, I must start out by being impertinent, or I will be afraid of you.
He still doesn’t laugh. She does, ruefully.
Darcy: Is something amusing, Miss Bennet?
[... … ..]
END: Lizzy: You have chosen your flaws well - for they are truly not funny.
Darcy: There is perhaps a particular evil in every character.
Lizzy: May I sum up yours, Mr. Darcy? (The dance stops.) Your defect is, I’m afraid, a propensity to hate everybody. (He starts a little.)
Darcy: And yours is to willfully misunderstand them.
Hamill, Kate, Pride and Prejudice, Dramatists Play Service, 2017.
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