Jane Austen
and he listened without attempting to interrupt her while she continued:
"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 other--of 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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