Jane Austen ”Pride and Prejudice” 44~69p -3

Chapter11、ビングリー家で食後に交わされる会話のやり取りがめちゃめちゃ好き。ダーシーのリジーに対する気持ちの変化をいち早く察したキャロラインの、二人を対立させようとする目論見が、返って二人の距離を縮めていくことになるというあたり。いやぁもう、ダーシーはこの段階でかなりリジーに参ってるようだけど。相手がまったく気づいてないというのがまた王道。

"・・vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride--where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."

"I have made no such pretension. I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding--certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others as soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. --My good opinion once lost, is lost for ever."

というダーシーの自己分析のセリフとか、泣かせるなぁ。アスランの心境とも重なる(病気)。もちろん、自分にも思い当たる節あり。