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Persuasion

CHAPTER 21
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And, upon my word, he is nothing to me.

Should he ever propose to me (which I have very little reason to imagine he has any thought of doing), I shall not accept him.

I assure you I shall not.
I assure you, Mr Elliot had not the share which you have been supposing, in whatever pleasure the concert of last night might afford: not Mr Elliot; it is not Mr Elliot that--" She stopped, regretting with a deep blush that she had implied so much; but less would hardly have been sufficient.

Mrs Smith would hardly have believed so soon in Mr Elliot's failure, but from the perception of there being a somebody else.

As it was, she instantly submitted, and with all the semblance of seeing nothing beyond; and Anne, eager to escape farther notice, was impatient to know why Mrs Smith should have fancied she was to marry Mr Elliot; where she could have received the idea, or from whom she could have heard it.
"Do tell me how it first came into your head." "It first came into my head," replied Mrs Smith, "upon finding how much you were together, and feeling it to be the most probable thing in the world to be wished for by everybody belonging to either of you; and you may depend upon it that all your acquaintance have disposed of you in the same way.


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