After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday. The pain of separation, however, might be alleviated on his side, by preparations for the reception of his bride; as he had reason to hope, that shortly after his return into Hertfordshire, the day would be fixed that was to make him the happiest of men. He took leave of his relations at Longbourn with as much solemnity as before; wished his fair cousins health and happiness again, and promised their father another letter of thanks.
On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came as usual to spend the Christmas at Longbourn. Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister, as well by nature as education.
The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well-bred and agreeable. Mrs. Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Phillips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces. Between the two eldest and herself especially, there subsisted a particular regard. They had frequently been staying with her in town.
The first part of Mrs. Gardiner's business on her arrival was to distribute her presents and describe the newest fashions. When this was done she had a less active part to play. It became her turn to listen. Mrs. Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of. They had all been very ill-used since she last saw her sister. Two of her girls had been upon the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing in it.
"I do not blame Jane," she continued, "for Jane would have got Mr. Bingley if she could. But Lizzy! Oh, sister! It is very hard to think that she might have been Mr. Collins's wife by this time, had it not been for her own perverseness. He made her an offer in this very room, and she refused him. The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have, and that the Longbourn estate is just as much entailed as ever.
(Lydia Ahn: This song talks about how the main girl was being young and foolish. She wasn't wise enough yet to make reasonable and smart decisions. This song exemplifies Mrs. Bennet's feelings towards her daughters, but more specifically Elizabeth. She is disappointed in Jane but not angry at her, because Jane would have accepted Mr. Bingley's proposal right away if he had proposed. However, she was very irked at Elizabeth's behavior by rejecting Mr. Collins, a pretty wealthy man. She thought that Elizabeth was very foolish and only rejected him for Elizabeth's good. )
The Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister. They are all for what they can get. I am sorry to say it of them, but so it is. It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves."
Mrs. Gardiner, to whom the chief of this news had been given before, in the course of Jane and Elizabeth's correspondence with her, made her sister a slight answer, and, in compassion to her nieces, turned the conversation.
When alone with Elizabeth afterwards, she spoke more on the subject. "It seems likely to have been a desirable match for Jane," said she. "I am sorry it went off. But these things happen so often! A young man, such as you describe Mr. Bingley, so easily falls in love with a pretty girl for a few weeks, and when accident separates them, so easily forgets her, that these sort of inconsistencies are very frequent."
"An excellent consolation in its way," said Elizabeth, "but it will not do for us. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before."
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[Alice Ahn- Elizabeth mentions how people should not be influenced easily, especially when dealing with the topic of love. However, in this article it says that people are credulous, especially if they have a certain goal they want to accomplish, becoming vulnerable to whatever news they hear from others. Thus, Bingley cannot be entirely responsible for being tricked by Darcy because his love for Jane has made him more gullible for Darcy.]
"But that expression of 'violently in love' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. Pray, how violent was Mr. Bingley's love?"
[Sarah Hwang- Some of the words of the song such as "there's nothing else to compare," represent how Mr. Bingley has lost interest in other women that are not Jane. Also, the song can resemble Mr. Bingley's love toward Jane.]
(Phillip Song- In this chapter, Jane receives a letter from Mr. Bingley. In the letter, Mr. Bingley explains how he is not in the situation to marry Jane. Then, Jane realizes the situation and she gets depressed. This song shows how Jane got hurt on her heart and how much she loves Bingley.)
Only You Can Love Me This Way - Keith Urban (Samuel Yang - This scene resembles with Mr. Bingley reminiscing about love that he had with Jane. It seems as if he lost his interest towards girls due to the effect of Jane. "Only You Can Love Me This Way", by Keith Urban, is a song that emphasizes about the only love of the main character becoming one person as Mr. Bingley only thinks of Jane as his ultimate lover.)
"I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
Baby, It's Fact - HELLOGOODBYE
(Kathy Lee - Like the lyrics of this song, "But there's no point in listening / Your words are the only words" according to Elizabeth, Bingley's love is Jane for sure since he only listens to Jane and no other women. This song is as if Bingley is singing to Jane :
You should know it's true
Just now, the part about my love for you
And how my heart's about burst
Into a thousand pieces
Oh it must be true
And They'll believe us too soon
Bingley is wanting for Jane and the others to know that his only love is Jane because there are people who want to separate them.)
"Oh, yes!—of that kind of love which I suppose him to have felt. Poor Jane! I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately. It had better have happened to you, Lizzy; you would have laughed yourself out of it sooner. But do you think she would be prevailed upon to go back with us? Change of scene might be of service—and perhaps a little relief from home may be as useful as anything."
Elizabeth was exceedingly pleased with this proposal, and felt persuaded of her sister's ready acquiescence.
"I hope," added Mrs. Gardiner, "that no consideration with regard to this young man will influence her. We live in so different a part of town, all our connections are so different, and, as you well know, we go out so little, that it is very improbable that they should meet at all, unless he really comes to see her."
"And that is quite impossible; for he is now in the custody of his friend, and Mr. Darcy would no more suffer him to call on Jane in such a part of London! My dear aunt, how could you think of it? Mr. Darcy may perhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it; and depend upon it, Mr. Bingley never stirs without him."
"So much the better. I hope they will not meet at all. But does not Jane correspond with his sister? She will not be able to help calling."
"She will drop the acquaintance entirely."
But in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place this point, as well as the still more interesting one of Bingley's being withheld from seeing Jane, she felt a solicitude on the subject which convinced her, on examination, that she did not consider it entirely hopeless. It was possible, and sometimes she thought it probable, that his affection might be reanimated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane's attractions.
Miss Bennet accepted her aunt's invitation with pleasure; and the Bingleys were no otherwise in her thoughts at the same time, than as she hoped by Caroline's not living in the same house with her brother, she might occasionally spend a morning with her, without any danger of seeing him.
The Gardiners stayed a week at Longbourn; and what with the Phillipses, the Lucases, and the officers, there was not a day without its engagement. Mrs. Bennet had so carefully provided for the entertainment of her brother and sister, that they did not once sit down to a family dinner. When the engagement was for home, some of the officers always made part of it—of which officers Mr. Wickham was sure to be one; and on these occasions, Mrs. Gardiner, rendered suspicious by Elizabeth's warm commendation, narrowly observed them both. Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth onbefore she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment.
(Cindy Choi- There is a mysterious chemistry between Elizabeth and Wickham in this part of the chapter. Even people around these two love birds can sense their feelings for each other. Elizabeth even changes her way of words that hint off her interest in Wickham. This song portrays how its just 'you and me' meaning Elizabeth and Wickham, and how nobody can tell them what to do but to love each other. )
To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham had one means of affording pleasure, unconnected with his general powers. About ten or a dozen years ago, before her marriage, she had spent a considerable time in that very part of Derbyshire to which he belonged. They had, therefore, many acquaintances in common; and though Wickham had been little there since the death of Darcy's father, it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends than she had been in the way of procuring.
Mrs. Gardiner had seen Pemberley, and known the late Mr. Darcy by character perfectly well. Here consequently was an inexhaustible subject of discourse. In comparing her recollection of Pemberley with the minute description which Wickham could give, and in bestowing her tribute of praise on the character of its late possessor, she was delighting both him and herself. On being made acquainted with the present Mr. Darcy's treatment of him, she tried to remember some of that gentleman's reputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it, and was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.
Yunjin Kim (Picture)
As Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner arrives at the Bennet's house for Christmas, Mrs.Gardiner realizes what has happened between Jane and Mr. Bingley. To soothe her emotions and state, Mrs. Gardiner invites Jan to stay with her in London for a while where she can have a break in her life, where no one can bother her.
(Jenny Lee - A family is a family. http://www.songsforteaching.com/skipwest/afamilyisafamily.htm
The Gardiners sometimes criticizes the young ladies for their action, but we can also tell that they care because they decide to take Jane to London being worried about her hurt feelings. This is a representing example of a family members loving and caring for each other despite the dislike of some of the things that they do.)
Jane accepts their invitation excitedly, hoping that she might have the slightest chance in meeting Mr. Bingley.
<Hajung Kim- This image of Jane smiling shows that she's glad to accept the Gardiners' invitation to stay with them in London. Also, the fact that Jane has the hope of meeting Mr.Bingley is reflected in the smile in the picture. She had previously told that she no longer cared as much about Mr.Bingley but the way she accepts the invitation, and has the hope of meeting him shows that she still has lingering feelings regarding Mr.Bingley. The scene describes the Gardiners with the Bennets and other families that Mrs.Bennet has arranged to meet during the holidays.>
Edward Cho - Heaven - Jamie Foxx
This music begins with about asking if anyone saw an angel come down or someone as beautiful as an angel. The song progresses about how the angel might have came down from heaven and how beautiful she was. In the end the song turns its topic and states that the angel left and the heaven wasn't the same anymore without angel. Now that Bingley told Jane that they can't be together The world cannot be the same for both of them. Marriage was what they both expected but now their dream is completely or at least for now, broken.
Edward Cho
Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte
This music do not have any words, but it sounded exactly like how the situation was. This music was originally written by Ravel for a dead princess but this sad yet bright music reflects this chapter 25 very well. Bingley tells Jane that they can't be together and the clear explanation which makes the situation more sad is well reflected in this piece of music.
Chapter 25
After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday. The pain of separation, however, might be alleviated on his side, by preparations for the reception of his bride; as he had reason to hope, that shortly after his return into Hertfordshire, the day would be fixed that was to make him the happiest of men. He took leave of his relations at Longbourn with as much solemnity as before; wished his fair cousins health and happiness again, and promised their father another letter of thanks.On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came as usual to spend the Christmas at Longbourn. Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister, as well by nature as education.
The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well-bred and agreeable. Mrs. Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Phillips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces. Between the two eldest and herself especially, there subsisted a particular regard. They had frequently been staying with her in town.
The first part of Mrs. Gardiner's business on her arrival was to distribute her presents and describe the newest fashions. When this was done she had a less active part to play. It became her turn to listen. Mrs. Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of. They had all been very ill-used since she last saw her sister. Two of her girls had been upon the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing in it.
"I do not blame Jane," she continued, "for Jane would have got Mr. Bingley if she could. But Lizzy! Oh, sister! It is very hard to think that she might have been Mr. Collins's wife by this time, had it not been for her own perverseness. He made her an offer in this very room, and she refused him. The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have, and that the Longbourn estate is just as much entailed as ever.
(Lydia Ahn: This song talks about how the main girl was being young and foolish. She wasn't wise enough yet to make reasonable and smart decisions. This song exemplifies Mrs. Bennet's feelings towards her daughters, but more specifically Elizabeth. She is disappointed in Jane but not angry at her, because Jane would have accepted Mr. Bingley's proposal right away if he had proposed. However, she was very irked at Elizabeth's behavior by rejecting Mr. Collins, a pretty wealthy man. She thought that Elizabeth was very foolish and only rejected him for Elizabeth's good. )
The Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister. They are all for what they can get. I am sorry to say it of them, but so it is. It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves."
Mrs. Gardiner, to whom the chief of this news had been given before, in the course of Jane and Elizabeth's correspondence with her, made her sister a slight answer, and, in compassion to her nieces, turned the conversation.
When alone with Elizabeth afterwards, she spoke more on the subject. "It seems likely to have been a desirable match for Jane," said she. "I am sorry it went off. But these things happen so often! A young man, such as you describe Mr. Bingley, so easily falls in love with a pretty girl for a few weeks, and when accident separates them, so easily forgets her, that these sort of inconsistencies are very frequent."
"An excellent consolation in its way," said Elizabeth, "but it will not do for us. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before."
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[Alice Ahn- Elizabeth mentions how people should not be influenced easily, especially when dealing with the topic of love. However, in this article it says that people are credulous, especially if they have a certain goal they want to accomplish, becoming vulnerable to whatever news they hear from others. Thus, Bingley cannot be entirely responsible for being tricked by Darcy because his love for Jane has made him more gullible for Darcy.]
"But that expression of 'violently in love' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. Pray, how violent was Mr. Bingley's love?"
[Sarah Hwang- Some of the words of the song such as "there's nothing else to compare," represent how Mr. Bingley has lost interest in other women that are not Jane. Also, the song can resemble Mr. Bingley's love toward Jane.]
(Phillip Song- In this chapter, Jane receives a letter from Mr. Bingley. In the letter, Mr. Bingley explains how he is not in the situation to marry Jane. Then, Jane realizes the situation and she gets depressed. This song shows how Jane got hurt on her heart and how much she loves Bingley.)
Only You Can Love Me This Way - Keith Urban
(Samuel Yang - This scene resembles with Mr. Bingley reminiscing about love that he had with Jane. It seems as if he lost his interest towards girls due to the effect of Jane. "Only You Can Love Me This Way", by Keith Urban, is a song that emphasizes about the only love of the main character becoming one person as Mr. Bingley only thinks of Jane as his ultimate lover.)
"I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
Baby, It's Fact - HELLOGOODBYE
(Kathy Lee - Like the lyrics of this song, "But there's no point in listening / Your words are the only words" according to Elizabeth, Bingley's love is Jane for sure since he only listens to Jane and no other women. This song is as if Bingley is singing to Jane :
You should know it's true
Just now, the part about my love for you
And how my heart's about burst
Into a thousand pieces
Oh it must be true
And They'll believe us too soon
Bingley is wanting for Jane and the others to know that his only love is Jane because there are people who want to separate them.)
"Oh, yes!—of that kind of love which I suppose him to have felt. Poor Jane! I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately. It had better have happened to you, Lizzy; you would have laughed yourself out of it sooner. But do you think she would be prevailed upon to go back with us? Change of scene might be of service—and perhaps a little relief from home may be as useful as anything."
Elizabeth was exceedingly pleased with this proposal, and felt persuaded of her sister's ready acquiescence.
"I hope," added Mrs. Gardiner, "that no consideration with regard to this young man will influence her. We live in so different a part of town, all our connections are so different, and, as you well know, we go out so little, that it is very improbable that they should meet at all, unless he really comes to see her."
"And that is quite impossible; for he is now in the custody of his friend, and Mr. Darcy would no more suffer him to call on Jane in such a part of London! My dear aunt, how could you think of it? Mr. Darcy may perhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it; and depend upon it, Mr. Bingley never stirs without him."
"So much the better. I hope they will not meet at all. But does not Jane correspond with his sister? She will not be able to help calling."
"She will drop the acquaintance entirely."
But in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place this point, as well as the still more interesting one of Bingley's being withheld from seeing Jane, she felt a solicitude on the subject which convinced her, on examination, that she did not consider it entirely hopeless. It was possible, and sometimes she thought it probable, that his affection might be reanimated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane's attractions.
Miss Bennet accepted her aunt's invitation with pleasure; and the Bingleys were no otherwise in her thoughts at the same time, than as she hoped by Caroline's not living in the same house with her brother, she might occasionally spend a morning with her, without any danger of seeing him.
The Gardiners stayed a week at Longbourn; and what with the Phillipses, the Lucases, and the officers, there was not a day without its engagement. Mrs. Bennet had so carefully provided for the entertainment of her brother and sister, that they did not once sit down to a family dinner. When the engagement was for home, some of the officers always made part of it—of which officers Mr. Wickham was sure to be one; and on these occasions, Mrs. Gardiner, rendered suspicious by Elizabeth's warm commendation, narrowly observed them both. Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth onbefore she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment.
(Cindy Choi- There is a mysterious chemistry between Elizabeth and Wickham in this part of the chapter. Even people around these two love birds can sense their feelings for each other. Elizabeth even changes her way of words that hint off her interest in Wickham. This song portrays how its just 'you and me' meaning Elizabeth and Wickham, and how nobody can tell them what to do but to love each other. )
To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham had one means of affording pleasure, unconnected with his general powers. About ten or a dozen years ago, before her marriage, she had spent a considerable time in that very part of Derbyshire to which he belonged. They had, therefore, many acquaintances in common; and though Wickham had been little there since the death of Darcy's father, it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends than she had been in the way of procuring.
Mrs. Gardiner had seen Pemberley, and known the late Mr. Darcy by character perfectly well. Here consequently was an inexhaustible subject of discourse. In comparing her recollection of Pemberley with the minute description which Wickham could give, and in bestowing her tribute of praise on the character of its late possessor, she was delighting both him and herself. On being made acquainted with the present Mr. Darcy's treatment of him, she tried to remember some of that gentleman's reputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it, and was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.
Yunjin Kim (Picture)
As Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner arrives at the Bennet's house for Christmas, Mrs.Gardiner realizes what has happened between Jane and Mr. Bingley. To soothe her emotions and state, Mrs. Gardiner invites Jan to stay with her in London for a while where she can have a break in her life, where no one can bother her.(Jenny Lee - A family is a family.
http://www.songsforteaching.com/skipwest/afamilyisafamily.htm
The Gardiners sometimes criticizes the young ladies for their action, but we can also tell that they care because they decide to take Jane to London being worried about her hurt feelings. This is a representing example of a family members loving and caring for each other despite the dislike of some of the things that they do.)
Jane accepts their invitation excitedly, hoping that she might have the slightest chance in meeting Mr. Bingley.
<Hajung Kim- This image of Jane smiling shows that she's glad to accept the Gardiners' invitation to stay with them in London. Also, the fact that Jane has the hope of meeting Mr.Bingley is reflected in the smile in the picture. She had previously told that she no longer cared as much about Mr.Bingley but the way she accepts the invitation, and has the hope of meeting him shows that she still has lingering feelings regarding Mr.Bingley. The scene describes the Gardiners with the Bennets and other families that Mrs.Bennet has arranged to meet during the holidays.>
Edward Cho - Heaven - Jamie Foxx
This music begins with about asking if anyone saw an angel come down or someone as beautiful as an angel. The song progresses about how the angel might have came down from heaven and how beautiful she was. In the end the song turns its topic and states that the angel left and the heaven wasn't the same anymore without angel. Now that Bingley told Jane that they can't be together The world cannot be the same for both of them. Marriage was what they both expected but now their dream is completely or at least for now, broken.
Edward Cho
Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte
This music do not have any words, but it sounded exactly like how the situation was. This music was originally written by Ravel for a dead princess but this sad yet bright music reflects this chapter 25 very well. Bingley tells Jane that they can't be together and the clear explanation which makes the situation more sad is well reflected in this piece of music.
Chapter 26