"When I wrote that letter," replied Darcy, "I believed myself perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit."
– En écrivant cette lettre, reprit Darcy, je m’imaginais etre calme et froid ; mais je me rends compte maintenant que je l’ai écrite le cour plein d’une affreuse amertume.