#i could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine

[blackdollette]

"got your bible, got your gun." || part three.

꒰ ៹ . " 𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒. "

coachella: woodstock in my mind. - lana del rey

୨୧˖-ׁ 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬: while cruising through the sky, a storm brews...

꒰ ៹ . ୨୧˖ 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: new ! bau ! female ! reader x jealous ! spencer

꒰ ៹ . ୨୧˖ 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭: 930

꒰ ៹ . ୨୧˖ 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: fighting ( verbal ) , real conflict begins here

ㅤㅤㅤ꒰ ៹ . 🍒 previous chapters: 𝐈 , 𝐈𝐈

wheels were up. a particularly disturbing case called for you to travel halfway across the country. and it was only your third day on the job.

you had offered to sit this one out. you would’ve been fine sorting out old paperwork in the comfort of your little desk. but they handed you a polished gun and got you on the jet. and that was that.

“mind if i sit here?”

spencer didn’t even need to look up from his novel to immediately identify the owner of the voice. he cleared his throat, brows furrowing as he parted his legs slightly in subconscious protection of “his territory.”

“it’s a free country. knock yourself out.” he muttered under his breath.

you gracefully sat yourself in the leather seat that was conjoined with his. you placed the case files handed to you on your lap, glancing over at the man beside you. his nose was buried in a hard cover novel, the book in pristine condition that made it look completely untouched.

“whatcha reading there, spencer?” you were going to be on the flight for a while, so why not try to start a conversation with your new colleague?

he wasn’t used to the way his name sounded in your mouth. “uh, pride and prejudice.” he responded.

after just a few conversations with spencer, there were things you started to take note of: he never looked at you when he spoke, when he talked his voice was always suppressed, like he was forcing himself to hold back from saying something that was just itching to come out, and his body language was practically screaming for you to stay away from him.

but you had never been the firmest believer in basic human psychology.

you nodded slightly at his answer, opening up one of the files in front of you. “...i could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine…” you whispered. it was a quote directly from the novel. you hadn’t picked it out for any particular reason, it was simply the first one that came to mind.

spencer shut the book, probably with more force than intended before looking directly at you, eyes narrowed. “what’s that supposed to mean?”

your head shot in his direction as you realized that he must’ve taken your reference the wrong way. oops.

“oh, i didn’t mean anything by it, doctor. i’ve read the book too.”

the hint of mockery in your voice was unmistakable. he swallowed hard, a vein on his forehead beginning to pulsate. you avoided his gaze to glance outside the airplane window. the clouds had grown dark over the past few minutes. a storm was on its way.

it was at this moment that you finally shut up, but now he was getting started.

“you must think i was born yesterday, huh?” the floodgates had burst open.

you raised an eyebrow, face contorting with defense. “excuse me?”

spencer whipped his glasses off of his face, lowering his voice to a snarling whisper, biting out each of his meticulously picked out words with razor-sharp precision.

“you’ve got everyone in this goddamn unit wrapped around your little finger. you practically waltzed into this profession, manipulate my team with those big eyes of yours, and now you’re trying to get me under your spell too. and i’m willing to bet that all you had to do to get this job was bat your eyelashes before they served it to you on a silver platter. i’m the only one in this place who’s got their head on straight. i swear…”

and he just kept going. it was like standing right in front of an erupting volcano that was said to be inert. everytime you thought he was done, another wave of distasteful words spilled out. until he stopped. an uncomfortable wave of silence pulsated. to your surprise, you were able to mask your shock behind a poker face of indifference.

“...so that’s the problem. you’re scared, intimidated even. you believe that someone like me isn’t worthy of working in the field with highly-experienced men. you’re jealous that i seemed to blend in instantly, almost effortlessly, while you still stick out like a sore thumb after all these years. now tell me, doctor reid, do you express such severe disdain toward me because i’m young, or because i’m a woman?”

his jaw slacked open. you had read him like an open book, and hearing the truth behind his animosity for you summoned something in his gut. embarrassment? no. remorse? not quite. he didn’t know how to descirbe how he felt, but the pure, unflitered abhorrence on his face said it all. 

“neither, and i’m not a sexist.” he muttered, “so you can quit profiling me now.”

his cheeks obtained an unmistakable pink flush, silencing him at once. you let out a satisfied hum, leaning back in your chair and shifting your attention to the pictures of the crime scene that were given to you. you could hear his uneven breaths still as the quiet minutes passed.

“...and for the record…” you started, eyes glued to the files in front of you. “...i worked my ass off to land this job. i’ve never let pretentious men like you stop me from getting to the top, and i won’t start now.”

he bit the inside of his cheek, hastily putting his glasses back on his face and flipping his book back open. there was so much that he wanted to say, but he would hate for this dispute between youths to make a scene. he didn’t even care that he had lost his page, because one thing was for certain:

if you weren’t a problem to him before, you definitely are now.

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[nanashi-reads23]

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

[exhausted-think-bucket]

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine

[ophelia-without-hamlet]

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. - elizabeth bennet moodboard

[thepersonalquotes]

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen

[nyuula-art]

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. 🪶

[lovequotesandcoffee]

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

[quotergirl19]

​Bridgerton Characters & their matching Pride & Prejudice quotes:

Penelope: I've no money and no prospects. I'm already a burden to my parents and I'm frightened. So don't you judge me.

Penelope, Eloise & Edwina: I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Simon (to Daphne), Anthony (to Kate): 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.

Violet, Lady Danbury, Queen Charlotte & Portia: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Colin: There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Violet: Do anything rather than marry without affection.

Colin (about falling in love with Penelope): I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Penelope, Queen Charlotte, Portia, Violet, Kate, Daphne, (basically everyone except Mr. Finch): There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Kate (about Anthony), Young Violet (about young Edmund), Penelope (about Colin): I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Penelope, Queen Charlotte, Portia, Violet, Kate, Daphne, (basically everyone except Eloise): To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Penelope, (basically the ton & anyone in London who buys Lady Whistledown): For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Penelope, Violet, Daphne, Kate, Edwina: Do anything rather than marry without affection.

Violet (to all her children), Penelope (pleading with Marina & Eloise not to do things they plan on doing) Portia & Mary (with life in general): Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Penelope: I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.

Colin (realizing he loves Penelope & only had a boyish infatuation for Marina): Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our aquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.

Kate, Queen Charlotte, Daphne, Penelope, Lady Danbury, Eloise: Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?

Penelope (to Colin), Queen Charlotte (to anyone groveling successfully before her): It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Colin (at Featherington ball about Penelope): She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Daphne (to Simon at dinner before their fake courtship): From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others… I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

Portia: Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Eloise: My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

Kate: A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.

Anthony: Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Penelope & Eloise (fighting with each other): There is nothing so bad as parting with one’s friends.

Penelope: There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

[inuhiime]

:: 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 ! ──── ⪩⪨ 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐉𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐄

‘ i could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. ’

‘ nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. ’

‘ my good opinion, once lost, is lost forever. ’

‘ you could not make me happy. ’

‘ can i speak plainer? ’

‘ those who do not complain are never pitied. ’

‘ there are few people whom i really love, and still fewer of whom i think well. ’

‘ the more i see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it. ’

‘ they will ruin your happiness. ’

‘ i would try to believe almost anything, but no one else can be benefited by such a belief as this. ’

‘ we do not suffer by accident. ’

‘ you must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love you. ’

‘ i have every reason in the world to think ill of you. ’

‘ forgive me for having taken up so much of your time. ’

‘ had i been in love, i could not have been more wretchedly blind. ’

‘ let me once in my life feel how much i have been to blame. ’

‘ you refuse to obey the claims of duty, honor, and gratitude. ’

‘ think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. ’

‘ i was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. ’

‘ you must know, surely you must know, it was all for you. ’

‘ we are all fools in love. ’

' vanity and pride are different things. '

‘ are you rejecting me? ’

‘ i have been so blind. ’

‘ i am very sorry to have caused you pain. ’

[laurasuarezinfo]

Pride and Prejudice“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” - Pride and Prejudice

[pleasantviewrainfall111]

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."

More of the film poster project, this time "Pride and Prejudice" aka "Dignity and Decorum". (At least I assume that's what they're hinting at. Could also be Sense and Sensibility, but alas...what's done is done. I love Mister Darcy, and I shall have him.) This is one of the posters I made that has Clara from my Seven Deadly Sins legacy on it and it actually fits right into the story because this is connected to the casting she went to in this post! As before, "poses" are made by me. There's no scenes or anything this time, obviously, just the game and good old clip studio paint action. 🫡

[thepersonalwords]

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen

[lovecrimeagh]

Pride and Prejudice "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine" really gives me a lacho vibe somehow 😭

[awinterrosesstuff]

Elizabeth Bennet - Pride and Prejudice

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

I took pictures from the movie with Keira Knightley because I loved it as a teenager and discovered this story thanks to it. Since I've read the book, but this adaptation will always hold a place in my heart.

[writerinthedarksworld]

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."

~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

[kleynerblog]

"and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine." - “pride and prejudice”, Jane Austin