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1. Degree one: The retort courteous. Mrs Bennet is courteous in the face of Lady Catherine de Burgh's arrogant dismissal of Longbourn.
" 'You have a very small park here,' returned Lady Catherine, after a short silence.
'It is nothing in comparison of _______, my lady, I dare say; but, I assure you, it is much larger than Sir William Lucas's.'"
Which is Lady Catherine's country house?:
2. Degree one: The retort courteous. Here is Mr Darcy responding to Miss Bingley at a ball.
Miss Bingley: "The insipidity, and yet the noise -- the nothingness, and yet the self-importance of all these people! What would I give to hear your strictures on them!"
Darcy: "Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow."
Who is the pretty woman meditated over by Mr Darcy?
3. Degree two: The Quip Modest. Mr Bennet responds to Mrs Bennet's news of a new arrival in the area.
Mrs Bennet: " A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!"
Mr Bennet: "How so? how can it affect them?"
"'My dear Mr. Bennet,' replied his wife, 'how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.'"
Mr Bennet: "Is that his design in settling here?"
Who is the single man?
4. Degree two: The quip modest. What is the missing word in this Bennet interchange?
Mr Bennet: "They are all silly and ignorant, like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters."
Mrs Bennet: "Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way! You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor _______."
Mr Bennet: "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your _______. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least."
5. Degree one: The retort courteous. This interchange between Darcy and Elizabeth is one of their most polite. Who does Elizabeth think Mr Darcy may be judging harshly?
"'I remember hearing you once say, Mr. Darcy, that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created was unappeasable. You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its being created.'
'I am,' said he, with a firm voice. "
6. Degree three: The reply churlish. Affable Sir William Lucas is rebuffed by Darcy.
Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies."
Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every ______ can dance." What word is missing?
7. Degree three: The reply churlish. Elizabeth can be quite churlish herself as in this interchange with Darcy.
"'_______ could not have interrupted any two people in the room who had less to say for themselves. We have tried two or three subjects already without success, and what we are to talk of next I cannot imagine.'
'What think you of books?' said he, smiling.
'Books -- Oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings.'"
Who interrupted their silent dance?
8. Degree four: The reproof valiant. The banter between Darcy and Elizabeth becomes heightened as Elizabeth loses patience with Darcy's stiffness and lack of conversation.
"After a pause of some minutes she addressed him a second time with -- 'It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy -- I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of ______.'" What is the missing word? Hint: pairing off.
9. Degree five: The countercheque quarrelsome. What is the missing word in this bout between Darcy and Elizabeth during the silent dance?
Elizabeth: " 'Conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.'
'Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?'
'Both,' replied Elizabeth archly; 'for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the éclat of a ________.'"
What word is missing? Hint: bible.
10. Degree Seven: The Lie Direct. Who earns this forceful rejection of Wickham's guilt from Elizabeth? ________: "'I pity you, Miss Eliza, for this discovery of your favourite's guilt; but really considering his descent, one could not expect much better.'
'His guilt and his descent appear by your account to be the same,' said Elizabeth angrily; 'for I have heard you accuse him of nothing worse than of being the son of Mr. Darcy's steward, and of that, I can assure you, he informed me himself.'"
11. Degree two: The quip modest. The confrontation between Lady Catherine de Burgh and Elizabeth Bennet escalates from this quiet beginning.
Elizabeth: "I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer."
Lady Catherine does not like this quip: "'This is not to be borne! Miss Bennet, I insist on being satisfied. Has he, has ________, made you an offer of marriage?" What is the missing word? Hint: a family matter.
12. Degree five: The countercheque quarrelsome. Elizabeth rebuffs Lady Catherine de Burgh's interference.
Lady Catherine: "But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of __________, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family. You may have drawn him in."
Elizabeth: "If I have, I shall be the last person to confess it."
What is the missing word?
13. Degree six: The Lie with circumstance. As Elizabeth and Lady Catherine clash, the gloves are off:
Lady Catherine: "Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this. I am almost the nearest relation he has in the world, and am entitled to know all his dearest concerns."
Elizabeth: "But you are not entitled to know mine; nor will such behaviour as this ever induce me to be explicit."
Who is Darcy's only nearer living relation?
14. Degree two: The quip modest. Elizabeth, having won the exchanges with Lady Catherine, returns to polite sparring.
Lady Catherine: "Let me be rightly understood. This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place. No, never. Mr. Darcy is engaged to _________. Now, what have you to say?"
Elizabeth: "Only this: that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he will make an offer to me."
To whom is Darcy supposedly engaged?
15. As Touchstone concludes, "Your If is your only peacemaker" (only understood here I admit). After Elizabeth and Darcy are engaged, Elizabeth takes Darcy to task about his silence at Longbourn.
Elizabeth: "You might have talked to me more when you came to ______."
Darcy: "A man who had felt less, might"
What is the occasion missing from the quotation? Hint: The man who came to ____ .
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