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Darcy, Deceit and Disguise
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In my corner of the Jane Austen fandom, one of the more hotly contested lines is something that Darcy says during the dreadful Hunsford scene: Disguise of every sort is my abhorrence. (He makes several other comments to the same effect throughout the book, but they receive much less attention.) Side 1 says something like, ‘See? He doesn’t lie, so when he says —-, he must be telling the truth.’ The other says, ‘But what about Bingley and Jane? He did lie, so therefore he is fully capable of misrepresenting himself so therefore we can’t trust anything he says.’
And, in my not so humble opinion, both are pretty far afield, so I’m yet again weighing in on the subject — this time in the context of Wickham.
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