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“And I promise to give you the satisfaction of a gentleman if your scheme turns out as ingenious as you assert.”

“So much the better for you, if what you assert be true,” said the abbé; “for I am firmly persuaded that, sooner or later, the good will be rewarded, and the wicked punished.”

In your picturesque account of the matter, which I read with great interest some months later, you assert that the wall was sheer.

Darcy chose to doubt it--or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence, in short, anything or nothing.