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"With great energy; but it is a subject which always makes a lady energetic."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 6.

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"Did not you think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?"

"With great energy; but it is a subject which always makes a lady energetic."

"You are severe on us."

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