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You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 60.

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"For the liveliness of your mind I did."

"You may as well call it impertinence at once. It was very little less. The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused and interested you, because I was so unlike them. Had you not been really amiable you would have hated me for it: but in spite of the pains you took to disguise yourself, your feelings were always noble and just; and in your heart you thoroughly despised the persons who so assiduously courted you. There - I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it; and really, all things considered, I begin to think it perfectly reasonable. To be sure you know no actual good of me - but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love."

"Was there no good in your affectionate behaviour to Jane, while she was ill at Netherfield?"

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