Jane Austen
"Your cousin will give you a very pretty notion of me, and teach you not to believe a word I
say. I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so able to expose my real character,
in a part of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit.
Indeed, Mr. Darcy, it is very ungenerous in you to mention all that you knew to my
disadvantage in Hertfordshire--and, give me leave to say, very impolitic too--for it is
provoking me to retaliate, and such things may come out as will shock your relations to
hear."
"I am not afraid of you," said he, smilingly.
"Pray let me hear what you have to accuse him of," cried Colonel Fitzwilliam. "I should
like to know how he behaves among strangers."
"You shall hear then--but prepare yourself for something very dreadful. The first time of
my ever seeing him in Hertfordshire, you must know, was at a ball--and at this ball, what
do you think he did
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