I did not believe her to be indifferent because I wished it I believed it on impartial conviction, as truly as I wished it in reason. That I was desirous of believing her indifferent is certain but I will venture to say that my investigations and decisions are not usually influenced by my hopes or fears. But I shall not scruple to assert that the serenity of your sister’s countenance and air was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched. Classroom rituals, the rules, and the decor all go toward building a community where students respect each other and work together, and aren’t afraid to try new things. If it be so, if I have been misled by such error to inflict pain on her, your resentment has not been unreasonable. Students’ first impression of the classroom environment will stick with them in the long run, and ultimately set them up for success later in life, Sandra says. Your superior knowledge of your sister must make the latter probable. If you have not been mistaken here, I must have been in an error. Her look and manners were open, cheerful, and engaging as ever, but without any symptom of peculiar regard and I remained convinced from the evening’s scrutiny, that though she received his attentions with pleasure, she did not invite them by participation of sentiment. After Lefroy died in 1869 one of his nephews wrote to Austen’s nephew James Edward Austen Leigh to say: 'My late venerable uncle…said in so many words that he was in love with her, although he qualified his confession by saying it was a boyish love.'įrom that moment I observed my friend’s behavior attentively and I could then perceive that his partiality for Miss Bennet was beyond what I had ever witnessed in him. Austen’s lack of wealth is believed to have played a part in the pair not ending up together. Darcy is believed to be partly based on Irish politician and lawyer Thomas Lefroy, who had a flirtation and spent some time with Jane Austen during a break from studying law. Making a Good First Impression Understanding How Others See You. He is 'unworthy' to be compared to his friend Charles Bingley, they decide. From the start they develop a dislike of and a prejudice against him. But very quickly they make up their minds from Darcy’s manner that he is insufferably proud and behaves as if he is superior to those around him.

Aside from Darcy’s handsome looks, what makes a big impression on the ballgoers is that he is wealthy and worth ten thousand pounds a year. This describes the reaction to Fitzwilliam Darcy and his friend Charles Bingley at the Meryton ball, attended by the Bennet sisters and their mother.

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