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“Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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