Remembering two great love stories: IPK and P&P
IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
''Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!''
Mr. Aksah Sing Raizada and The Eldest daughter of Shashi Gupta meet
They fall in love 😳
And another couple here fall in "hate"
Akash Singh Raizada has not come alone but brought his cousin with him Arnav Singh Raizada.
His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
Mrs Gupta,whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted her youngest daughter, Khushi Kumari Gupta.
"she is tolerable but not enough to tempt me" Arnav had said.
Khushi heard him say so and they part with heart full of hate for each other.
ASR had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes.
To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing;
and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Of this she was perfectly unaware; -- to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable no where, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
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They meet again and again while one began falling in love while the other became more and more prejudiced against him.
''In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.''
''You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it.''
''You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness.''
And the part ways
End of first half and for second half go and read the book 😆
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