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riage may ever be made to you.Your portion is unhappily so small, that it will in all likehood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.” (5) She also refused Darcy at his first proposal because of his arrogance. “You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way than as it spare me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.”(6) It seems that his large amount income does not help if his love mixed with lofty stance. She has a preference to soul. At that time, laking discovering his virtue, she did not fall in love with him no matter how rich he is, let alone he couched in such proud and condescending terms. Let’s turn our eyes to the hero Darcy. To see in another way, Darcy is praise-worthy. He chooses Elizabeth according to his own heart. His genuineness, honesty, frankness and kindness under the surface led him in pursuit of true love, not just be drifted with the tide which dominate the upper class. As lady Catherine de Bourgh said to Elizabeth arrogantly. “Because honor, decorum, prudence, nay interest, forbid it. Yes, Miss Bennet, interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you willfully act against the inclinations of all. You will be censured, slighted, and despised by every one connected with him. Your alliance will be a disgrace; your name will never be mentioned by any of us.”(7) But Elizabeth and Darcy’s option is proved to be right. And naturally came the satisfactory result that they live together happily. There is no doubt that both of them are models following their own true sentiment. Meanwhile they are true to the choice by both sense and sensibility jointly. This is a pursuit of harmony and sense of propriety, which is neither partial to indulging extreme feelings nor striking rigidly to stereotype convincing the society. On this premise, the transcendence of reality, the respect to sentiment and the integrity of material and spiritual life might become true. The counter-evidences prove further that Austen prefers harmony, moderation to extreme. Charlotte, as I mentioned before, yielded to interests and ignorant intellect which brought her no happiness but the withered soul. However, Lydia goes from one extreme to the other. Leaving aside her dissoluteness, shamelessness, and shallowness, merely her indulgence to sentiment is enough to destroy her. II. The harmony is further proved by Jane Austen’s life experience. The harmony we find in her works can also be found in her life. Before we come to her experience, let’s see something about her era. Austen was born in 1775 and died in 1817. It was the transitional period that was from the Romantic Period to the Victorian Age, critical Realism in English literature. In those days, when perhaps people’s nerves were stronger than they are now, sentiment may have existed in a less degree, or have been more ruled by judgment; it may have been calmer and more matter-of-fact. But as the development of economics, the values and moral concept were changing. The superficial manners to which were attached great weight by declining aristocrat lost its importance. People began to focus on the internal world, paying special attention to one’s true moral character. Ausen was aware that the happiness came from the sincere emotion from the bottom of the heart, whereas the prudence showing reason could only distort one’s natu