espect to your familymy
dear Madamby thus withdrawing my pretensions to your
daughter’s favourwithout having paid yourself and Mr. Bennet
the compliment of requesting you to interpose your authority in
my behalf. My conduct may I fear be objectionable in having
accepted my dismission from your daughter’s lips instead of your
own. But we are all liable to error. I have certainly meant well
through the whole affair. My object has been to secure an amiable
companion for myselfwith due consideration for the advantage of
all your familyand if my
manner has been at all reprehensibleI
here beg leave to apologise.’
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
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CHAPTER XXI
he discussion of Mr. Collins’s offer was now nearly at an
endand Elizabeth had only to suffer from the
uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending itand
occasionally from some peevish allusion of her mother. As for the
gentleman himself
his feelings were chiefly expressednot by
embarrassment or dejectionor by trying to avoid herbut by
stiffness of manner and resentful silence. He scarcely ever spoke
to herand the assiduous attentions which he
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