You could not have made the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 34. Having roasted Darcy for his ungentlemanly behavior, Elizabeth rejects him out of hand as a future husband. The disastrous Hunsford proposal scene is one of the most important in the novel. It is a major turning point where Darcy and Elizabeth air many of the grievances that stand between them.