Solved cryptogram

"Who that knows what his misfortunes have been can help feeling an interest in him?"

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 34.

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"You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns," said Darcy, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour.

"Who that knows what his misfortunes have been can help feeling an interest in him?"

"His misfortunes!" repeated Darcy, contemptuously, - "yes, his misfortunes have been great indeed."

Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.

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