Revelations: An adaption of Pride and Prejudice

Though most of us have always seen Mr Darcy as a character of extreme stability, there are hints in Pride and Prejudice that he is in fact a very feeling man, who is merely very adept at controlling his emotions to the point of seeming almost free of them.
Reading those rare sentences, sometimes mere words, I always tried to envision how the unfortunate events at Hunsford Parsonage, Mr Darcy's cold behaviour to Miss Elizabeth Bennet culminating in his dramatic offer of marriage to her, and her brutal rejection, must have affected him. Then one day I was inspired to write them down, starting this book.

He remembers his devastating realisation almost five months ago now, that the woman who finally caused him to him feel the exultation of love and the fever of passion was not a highly schooled, beautiful and accomplished noble lady from his own sophisticated class, but a country girl of a very minor family, nearly ten years his junior, not even really beautiful but merely very pretty, and without formal education, just naturally gifted with supreme intelligence and an irresistible authentic charm.
Within a few meetings, this audacious slip of a girl made his entire female acquaintance seem pretentious and overbearing. Yet a connection to her and her family would make his friends, family and acquaintance look at him and talk of him with pity and veiled scorn.
And what would he brave the ridicule of his friends and family for? Of course he wants an heir, children in general, and someone to finally share his baser needs with. But that was not what made the thought of Miss Elizabeth Bennet slowly take over his waking hours, to finally start invading his dreams.
It was her mind. Her breathtaking intelligence, her sharp wit, her loving attachment to her sister and her deep enjoyment of nature and solitary walks. His deepest wish has ever been to have an equal partner in life, someone he can really talk to, someone who will understand everything he says, who can relate to his innermost thoughts and feelings, whom he can discuss his ideas and opinions with. And the only woman he has met, in ten years of adulthood, to ever stir his feelings like that turned out to be decidedly beneath him.