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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Mrs. Bennett did comment there had been a fellow merchant friend of Mr. Gardiner who showed interest in Jane and she'd have been satisfied with that match.[/quote]

No, it was a clerk of her Uncle Phillips, a solicitor.

Mrs. Bennett married up. Her father was a solicitor and her sister married one of his clerks, who then took over his practice. Mrs. Bennett, nee Gardiner, married a gentleman, i.e., someone who did not have to work for a living because he owned property. If Jane had married the clerk, she would have moved down in social standing and Mrs. Bennett would NOT have been satisfied with that.

When Lizzie tries to refute Lady Catherine deBurgh's statement that d'Arcy is out of her social class, she says something close to "He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter," deBurgh says something like "that is true as far as it goes ...but who are your mother, your uncles?"

And when d'Arcy sees Elizabeth when she and the Gardiners visit Pemberley, he asks to be introduced to them. Lizzie thinks it ironic that he is being asked to be introduced to people who he would not have deigned to talk to because of their class. She mentions that he is surprised by the connection. He had thought Mr. Gardiner was a gentleman.

[b]Oh and there is no world in which Col. Fitzwilliam was going to propose to Lizzie. [/b]

Agree.  He knew that wouldn't work, and he knew that as well.  I do think, though, he wanted to see her one last time.  I wonder what became of him and how he and Lizzie felt when they met again at the wedding?

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