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Jeffrey Quackenbush's avatar

" Darcy misreads Bingley’s countenance with Jane—nervously wide-eyed as always—as indifference.”

You remember this backwards. Darcy thinks that Jane is indifferent to Bingley, not vice versa.

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F. Ichiro Gifford's avatar

I thought it was both ways

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Jeffrey Quackenbush's avatar

No, if I’m remembering this correctly, one of Darcy’s argument for Bingley to not propose is that he was more into the relationship than Jane. This makes more sense in the plot in that a wealthy young man would have all of the initiative in this kind of relationship and would have been able to discuss his intentions with his friend freely behind closed doors.

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