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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Love
Manner
Darcy
Prejudice
Spared
Suppose
Behaved
Concern
Refusing
Pride
Mode
Felt
Declaration
Might
Mistaken
Way
Affected

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