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"If he formally desires an interview, do you give him a formal
reception: if he formally offers you his hand, do you formally decline
the honour."
"I would it were you, Marie, that he loved."
"A thousand thanks to you, Mademoiselle Larochejaquelin. I appreciate
your generosity, but really I have no vacancy for M. Denot, just at
present."
"Ah! but you would reject him with so much more ease, than I can do it."
"Practice, my dear, is everything: this time you may feel a little
awkward, but you will find you will dispose of your second lover without
much difficulty, and you will give his conge to your third with as much
ease, as though you were merely dismissing a disobedient kitchen-maid."
"I cannot bear to give pain; and Adolphe will be pained; his self-love
will be wounded at the idea of being rejected."
"Then spare his self-love, and accept him."
"No; that I will not do."
"Then wound his self-love, and reject him."
"Would I could do the one without the other; would I could persuade him
I was not worthy of him.


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