] Linden you post was wonderfully insightful. I think this is perhaps the quality that I most admire in Darcy. Looking at yourself honestly and trying to do what you know to be right. Darcy even at the beginning dedicated himself to being respectable and rational. He is a man of discipline. He doesn't let emotion lead him around by the nose. I think that is a good quality in someone.

] You have only added to my increasingly firm conviction that Darcy is the best self-protrait drawn by Jane Austen.

....what the writer linked below has to say on that subject. He agrees with you.

Yours &c
Linda