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However, it was not until Elizabeth took note of Darcy's deeds that she began to appreciate his
character. From a conversation with Darcy's housekeeper, she learned that once you got to know
him, he was a surprisingly likable person: good tempered, generous to the poor, never spoke crossly,
not proud—in fact, the servant noted that she couldn't think of anyone who was good enough to
marry him. This blew Elizabeth's previous conceptions of Darcy's character out of the water.
Then later, Darcy took immediate, decisive action to rescue Elizabeth's sister Lydia from disgrace.
The rescue came at great personal expense, but Darcy hushed up his involvement and attempted to
conceal his actions from everyone. Later Elizabeth figured out what he had done and was
astonished at such a secret display of generosity and consideration. Once she understood the sort of
man he was, she became taken with his all his other character traits: loyalty, nobility, resolution,
amiability, intelligence, honesty.
So how did the match look from Darcy's angle? After initially finding Elizabeth "tolerable," Darcy
soon found himself reversing his initial assessment:
Mr. Darcy 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 hardly had 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 nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her
conversation with others.
The first thing Darcy noticed was that Elizabeth had an "uncommonly intelligent" expression in her
eyes. Elizabeth was elsewhere noted for her intelligence; her father, an INTP, was proud of her
"quickness." For the INTJ Darcy, this was clearly one of Elizabeth's distinguishing features. After
that he began to notice her figure and the "easy playfulness" which is characteristic of ENFPs.
Along with intelligence, Darcy admired a woman who was well read. Observe his description of
what constitutes a truly accomplished woman, and how it differs from the opinions of his
companions:
"It is amazing to me," said Bingley, "how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as
they all are."
"All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?" [said Miss Bingley, Charles
Bingley's sister.]
"Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses. I scarcely know anyone
who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without
being informed that she was very accomplished."
"Your list of the common extent of accomplishments," said Darcy, "has too much truth. The word is
applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. But
I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I cannot boast of knowing
more than half-a-dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished." [Gotta
keep those NT standards high.]
"Nor I, I am sure," said Miss Bingley.