Cardinal Pride Still Trumps Both Movies...

With all the men in our house off to cheer the St. Louis Cardinals, Leah and I borrowed our neighbor's copy of the new Pride and Prejudice. I fell asleep right after Mr. Darcy proposed, vaguely confused as to why Mr. Darcy was always glowering and Mr. Bingley always grinning like a simpleton.
The next day, we went to the library to rent the old Pride and Prejudice, the BBC version made in 1995. Leah had already seen it and was recommending it. Only one of the five videotapes was available, but we went ahead and got it anyway. (With my track record, I figured I would probably fall asleep before even that one tape was over.)
But, oh my... what a difference. I was so interested in the characters after that first 50 minutes, I could barely stand it. It wasn't so much the love story that intrigued me but the characters themselves and the way they provoked each other so insightfully. Some of the lines were so funny.
I truly could not wait to see the next part. So what were we to do?? Well, we called our friends who own the movie and begged to come right over and borrow it! They were actually excited that we were so into it, and it made it all the more fun! Anyway, the whole night was even more fun after the visit, and I am now officially a Pride and Prejudice fan.
Here are some of my favorite lines that I went back and found in the book (since I couldn't remember them from the movie.)
**An exchange between Elizabeth and Darcy early on at the Bingleys, when Jane was sick:
Darcy: "It has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule."
Elizabeth: "Such as vanity and pride."
Darcy: "Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride -- where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."

**Later, when they are attempting small talk while dancing:
Elizabeth: "We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb."


**And Elizabeth's scathing response to his proposal: "The mode of your declaration only spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner."


Oh, yes. And the next day, the Cardinals won the World Series!!!!! So there will be no Pride and Prejudice talk around this house once the guys get home!!! How thankful I am to have a daughter to share this with and a son and husband to keep it in check!