Jane Austen
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"But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather's death made her mistress
of this fortune."
"No--why should he? If it were not allowable for him to gain my affections because I
had no money, what occasion could there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care
about, and who was equally poor?"
"But there seems an indelicacy in directing his attentions towards her so soon after this
event."
"A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which
other people may observe. If she does not object to it, why should we?"
"Her not objecting does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something
herself--sense or feeling."
"Well," cried Elizabeth, "have it as you choose. He shall be mercenary, and she shall be
foolish."
"No, Lizzy, that is what I do not choose. I should be sorry, you know, to think ill of a
young man who has lived so long in Derbyshire."
"Oh
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