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name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him;
they are even impartial towards Miss King. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I
am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all
this. My watchfulness has been effectual; and though I certainly should be a more
interesting object to all my acquaintances were I distractedly in love with him, I cannot say
that I regret my comparative insignificance. Importance may sometimes be purchased too
dearly. Kitty and Lydia take his defection much more to heart than I do. They are young in
the ways of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome young
men must have something to live on as well as the plain."
Chapter 27
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