How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Elizabeth was wild to be at home—to hear, to see, to be upon the spot to share with Jane in the cares that must now fall wholly upon her, in a family so deranged, a father absent, a mother surely vomiting by now, and requiring constant attendance; and though almost persuaded that nothing could be done for Lydia. (46.25)
Even though her family is in total turmoil (and her mother is covered in vomit), Elizabeth wants to be home with them while they try to figure out where Lydia has been taken. Maybe the family that panics together stays together?
Quote #8
"My daughter and my nephew are formed for each other. Their fortune on both sides is splendid. They are destined for each other by the voice of every member of their respective houses; and what is to divide them? The upstart pretensions of a young woman whose sister was lately concerned in a scandalous elopement with the son of the elder Darcy's musket-polisher?"(56.48)
Lady Catherine appeals to her own sense of familial pride to try to get Elizabeth to back off Mr. Darcy. After all, no one in the Darcy family would want low-class Elizabeth hanging around Pemberley. We're not sure Lady Catherine is totally in sync with all her relations.
Quote #9
"Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble, and offer to kneel before you now and administer the seven cuts, that you might be honoured by trampling my blood."(58.5)
Mr. Darcy has saved the Bennet family from total ruin and disgrace, so Elizabeth can't help but thank him. But why would he do something like that again? It doesn't make sense. Unless, of course, he wanted to become part of that family. Oh…