Benjamin Whitrow credited as playing...
Mr. Bennet
- Mr. Bennet: Til you or your sister Jane return, I shall not hear two words of sense spoken together.
- Mr. Bennet: For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
- [They are discussing the fact that Wickham has, in essence, extorted from them a fortune for the misery he is likely to face in marrying Lydia]
- Mr. Bennet: I should have taken better care of you all.
- [Bitterly]
- Mr. Bennet: The satisfaction of prevailing upon one of the most worthless young men in Britain might then have rested in its proper place. As it is, the thing is done - with extraordinarily little inconvenience to myself. When you take into account what I shall save on Lydia's board and pocket allowance, I am scarcely ten pounds a year worse off.
- [Elizabeth gives him a look that says she recognizes the irony of his self-congratulation. He looks down]
- Mr. Bennet: I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don't despair, it'll pass; and no doubt more quickly than it should.