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stultiloquentia:

Mr Darcy is the only Austen man who blushes. 

Austen’s women blush all the time, for numerous reasons (interestingly, most frequently on behalf of somebody else who ought to be embarrassed but isn’t, like when Lizzy and Jane blush for Lydia and Wickham when the newlyweds arrive at Longbourn, or when Elinor blushes for the manipulative Lucy), but the men either “colour” or “turn red” when they’re embarrassed, guilty, angry, etc., which, Lord love ‘em, they frequently are. Darcy turns white the first time he claps eyes on Wickham in Meryton (while Wickham turns red), he grows “pale with anger” when he gets demolished by Lizzy at Hunsford, and listens with “heightened colour” as she keeps on wrecking him. But when they meet again at Pemberley, “the cheeks of each [are] overspread with the deepest blush.” He’s unique that way. I thought you’d all want to know.