The last paragraph of the book, Austen makes about the two couples who's marriage is true. I find it interesting that the couple Mr. and Mrs. Darcy are closest with the one other couple that appreciates each other company. Even though we don't know if the Gardiners were in love when they first got married, we do know that they have grown to love each other. The Gardiners are the one couple we see, before Elizabeth and Darcy get together that want to be around each other and enjoy having a close relationship with one another. With Mr. and Mrs. Bennett and Mr. and Mrs. Collins we see that one of the people in the relationship always has to go have a place were the other one does not go, so that they can have sometime to themselves. That is not the case with the Gardiners, and even though they have no children of there own they are still better parents to Elizabeth and Jane than the Bennetts. I think that Austen has these two couples together in the last paragraph because that is what Mr. and Mrs. Darcy want to have there relationship turn out like, which means never growing apart.
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You make a nice observation about the end of the book. Austen opens the novel with a mandate of marriage and ends the novel pointing at the two best marriages. While both marriages exist within the proper social sphere, love drives both marriages, not social advantage or money.
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