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Many people believe Jane Austen's novels are filled with "charged glances" and "lingering touches." Modern movies often show Darcy clenching his hand or Wentworth staring across a room, but Austen never actually wrote those scenes. She never describes eyes meeting across a ballroom, hands brushing by accident, or secret kisses. These moments simply...

For me, it has never been just the pride – nor even the famous transformation that readers love to celebrate. What makes Mr. Darcy so unmistakably himself lies in the quiet tension between restraint and feeling, between duty and desire, between what he has been taught to be and what he slowly learns he must become.