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By which I don't mean abuse or assault! I mean variations where she is forced to admit she was wrong, apologize, and do better.

During Jane and Elizabeth's stay at Netherfield in Pride and Prejudice there are a number of scenes in which Lizzy and Darcy verbally spar. This one, in Chapter 11, is among the most famous:

. . . My good opinion once lost is lost for ever.”

“That is a failing, indeed!” cried Elizabeth. “Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me.”

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.”

“And yours,” he replied, with a smile, “is wilfully to mis

I think this is a different fic to the one u/Healthy_Lemon_8360/ requested. In this one all the women are reading melodramatic short stories secretly written by Georgiana or maybe Anne de Bourgh, and they keep hiding them when a man enters the room.

Looks to have been temporary

There's a variation where I believe Darcy and Bingley have fallen out with each other. Darcy for some reason visits Mr. Gardiner at his warehouses and finds Bingley in his office; the three of them chat, but Bingley gets distracted by something shiny and eventually falls asleep.

Does anyone recognize this?

Have you ever noticed that many characters in the Bennet family in P&P bear at least some similarity to characters in the Darcys' sphere?

• Mr. Bennet/Mr. Hurst: married man completely oblivious to his wife's and family's blatant improprieties. The main difference: Mr. Bennet is smart.
• Mrs. Bennet/Lady Catherine: overbearing, ill-bred matchmaking mother. The main difference: Lady Catherine is higher ranked.
• Jane Bennet/Georgiana Darcy: sweet, mild daughter who blames herself for the acts of others. Main difference: Jane is older and more mature.
• Mary Bennet/Anne de Bourgh: purposeless, pointless, and exhausting. Main difference: Anne never speaks, Mary never shuts up.
• Kitty Bennet/L