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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I re-read Pride and Prejudice last summer when my DD, a college student, read it for the first time-- at the suggestion of her boyfriend.  Together with a few other family members and friends, we had a little 
P and P book club, which is one of my few silver linings of the pandemic.  Upon rereading the book, I was struck by Elizabeth's encounters and conversation with Mr. Darcy's cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam.  It seemed to me that he and Lizzie were quite simpatico, but he mentions to her at some point that he's not wealthy enough to marry.  So, that might cast some doubt on the speculation here that Lizzie would have found a husband among the officers of the regiment at Longbourne.   [/quote]

Col. Fitzwilliam was the son of an Earl and therefore felt he needed to marry an heiress (ideally with a title), but that doesn’t mean that many officers (someone along the lines of Col. Forster for example) wouldn’t be able to marry gentlewomen like the Bennet sisters. [/quote]

Interesting, I remember that near the end of Elizabeth's stay with the Collins she was told that 2 men had stopped in while she was out walking I think with Darcy's letter in her mind- each man alone- to pay a visit- one being Fitzwilliam and one being Darcy- before they were leaving town and that Fitzwilliam waited nearly an hour to see her before leaving.   I remember taking that passage to mean that Fitzwilliam was intending to propose to Elizabeth.  [/quote]

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