Chapter 52
Mrs. Gardiner's letter revealing Darcy's role in bribing Wickham to marry Lydia.
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Chapter 59
Elizabeth's teasing reply to Jane asking when she began to love Darcy: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." A famously ambiguous joke.
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