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If, therefore, she actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because, if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity.”

It was some consolation to think that his visit to Rosings was to end on the day after the next, and a still greater that in less than a fortnight she should herself be with Jane again, and enabled to contribute to the recovery of her spirits, by all that affection could do.

To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.

“I propose to make a little investigation of my own to-night, and it is just possible that it may contribute something to the common cause.”