Chapter 11
The Turn About the Room
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1 Netherfield stands quiet in its damp autumn park after dinner.
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2 Caroline’s animated story and Louisa’s laughter welcome Jane into the candlelit drawing-room.
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3 Caroline rises eagerly as Darcy enters the drawing-room, his attention turning to Jane
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4 Bingley pauses with a log in his hands to meet Jane’s eyes.
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5 Elizabeth pauses over her needlework, quietly delighted by Bingley’s attention to Jane.
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6 Hurst sleeps while Darcy and Caroline read, and Bingley attends to Jane.
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7 Louisa Hurst idly turns a thin gold bracelet around her wrist.
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8 Caroline’s great yawn betrays her boredom beneath her extravagant praise of reading.
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9 Bingley laughingly assures Caroline that the Netherfield ball is settled.
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10 Darcy’s steady attention to his book quietly answers Caroline’s appeal to conversation.
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11 Caroline Bingley displays her elegant carriage, directing a sideways glance toward Darcy.
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12 Caroline approaches Elizabeth’s quiet corner with a carefully graceful invitation.
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13 Elizabeth accepts Caroline’s unexpected civility with amused curiosity.
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14 Elizabeth turns toward her walking companion with a lifted eyebrow and a sly, uneven smile.
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15 Darcy begins his explanation with dry assurance, his hand resting on the closed book.
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16 Caroline invites Elizabeth into a performance of mock indignation at Darcy’s teasing remark.
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17 Elizabeth turns a bright, teasing challenge on Darcy, her lips curving toward laughter
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18 Darcy gives Elizabeth a measured warning while Caroline listens closely behind her
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19 Elizabeth answers Darcy with candid amusement, delighting in human absurdity
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20 Elizabeth quietly names vanity and pride, meeting Darcy’s grave attention across the card-table.
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21 Darcy answers Elizabeth with grave conviction, his hand resting calmly on his closed book.
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22 Elizabeth turns away from Darcy to conceal her amusement.
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23 Elizabeth answers Caroline's pointed question with light irony as Darcy watches
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24 Elizabeth answers Darcy’s confession with an asymmetric half-smile.
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25 Elizabeth delivers her teasing verdict across the green baize.
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26 Darcy answers Elizabeth’s teasing accusation with a rare, open smile.
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27 Caroline Bingley briskly calls for music, her hand settling on the closed pianoforte.
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28 Darcy’s closed first volume rests beside the second volume Miss Bingley discarded.
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