1 You refuse, then, to oblige me.
2 I am perfectly serious in my refusal.
3 He made her an offer in this very room, and she refused him.
4 You refuse to obey the claims of duty, honour, and gratitude.
5 Elizabeth could not refuse, though she foresaw little pleasure in the visit.
6 He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse anything, which he condescended to ask.
7 You will hardly blame me for refusing to comply with this entreaty, or for resisting every repetition to it.
8 I wish you very happy and very rich, and by refusing your hand, do all in my power to prevent your being otherwise.
9 You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.
10 He thought too well of himself to comprehend on what motives his cousin could refuse him; and though his pride was hurt, he suffered in no other way.
11 His attachment excited gratitude, his general character respect; but she could not approve him; nor could she for a moment repent her refusal, or feel the slightest inclination ever to see him again.
12 That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all she could believe possible.
13 She was sorry that Mr. Darcy should have delivered his sentiments in a manner so little suited to recommend them; but still more was she grieved for the unhappiness which her sister's refusal must have given him.
14 Elizabeth was prepared to see him in his glory; and she could not help in fancying that in displaying the good proportion of the room, its aspect and its furniture, he addressed himself particularly to her, as if wishing to make her feel what she had lost in refusing him.
15 I am not now to learn," replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second, or even a third time.
16 Mr. Collins received and returned these felicitations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview, with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the refusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.
17 To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just as what Jane felt for Bingley.
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