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Miss Elizabeth.
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I have struggled in vain
and can bear it no longer.
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These past months have been a torment.
I came to Rosings only to see you.
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I have fought against
judgement, my family's expectation,
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the inferiority of your birth,
my rank.
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I will put them aside
and ask you to end my agony.
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- I don't understand.
- I love you.
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Most ardently.
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Please do me the honour
of accepting my hand.
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Sir, I appreciate the struggle
you have been through,
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and I am very sorry
to have caused you pain.
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It was unconsciously done.
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- Is this your reply?
- Yes, sir.
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- Are you laughing at me?
- No.
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Are you rejecting me?
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I'm sure the feelings which hindered
your regard will help you overcome it.
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Might I ask why with so little civility
I am thus repulsed?
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I might enquire why you told me you
liked me against your better judgement?
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If I was uncivil,
then that is some excuse.
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- But you know I have other reasons.
- What reasons?
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Do you think anything might tempt me
to accept the man who has ruined
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the happiness of a most beloved sister?
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Do you deny that you separated
a young couple who loved each other,
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exposing your friend
to censure for caprice
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and my sister to derision
for disappointed hopes,
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involving them both in acute misery?
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- I do not deny it.
- How could you do it?
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I believed your sister
indifferent to him.
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I realised his attachment
was deeper than hers.
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She's shy!
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Bingley was persuaded
she didn't feel strongly.
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- You suggested it.
- For his own good.
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My sister hardly shows
her true feelings to me.