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 to proceed as a well-judging young woman could permit herself to give. I was very much pleased with what I collected to have been your behaviour on the occasion; it shewed a discretion highly to be commended. But now, when he has made his overtures so properly, and honourably—what are your scruples now?"

"You are mistaken, Sir,"—cried Fanny, forced by the anxiety of the moment even to tell her Uncle that he was wrong—"You are quite mistaken. How could Mr. Crawford say such a thing; I gave him no encouragemenencouragement [sic] yesterday—On the contrary, I told him—I cannot recollect my exact words—but I am sure I told him that I would not listen to him, that it was very unpleasant to me in every respect, and that I begged him never to talk to me in that manner again.—I am sure I said as much as that and more; and I should have said still more,—if I had been quite certain of his meaning any thing seriously, but