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Pride and Prejudice

convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and

vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses

against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with

every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps

be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost

forever.”

“That is a failing indeed!” cried Elizabeth.

“Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But

you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh

at it. You are safe from me.”

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency

to some particular evila natural defect, which not

even the best education can overcome.”

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.”

“And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is wilfully to

misunderstand them.”

“Do let us have a little music,” cried Miss Bingley,

tired of a conversation in which she had no share.

“Louisa, you will not mind my waking Mr. Hurst?”

Her sister had not the smallest objection, and

the pianoforte was opened; and Darcy, after a few

moments’ recollection, was not sorry for it. He began to

feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

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