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Pride & Prejudice – page 321

Pride and Prejudice

As she pronounced these words, Mr. Darcy changed

colour; but the emotion was short, and he listened

without attempting to interrupt her while she contin-

ued:

“I have every reason in the world to think ill of you.

No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part

you acted there. You dare not, you cannot deny, that

you have been the principal, if not the only means of

dividing them from each otherof exposing one to the

censure of the world for caprice and instability, and

the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and

involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.”

She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that

he was listening with an air which proved him wholly

unmoved by any feeling of remorse. He even looked at

her with a smile of affected incredulity.

“Can you deny that you have done it?” she repeated.

With assumed tranquillity he then replied: “I have

no wish of denying that I did everything in my power

to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice

in my success. Towards him I have been kinder than

towards myself.”

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