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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: death made her mistress of this fortune."
"No-- what should he? If it were not allowable for him to gain
MY affections because I had no money, what occasion could
there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care about,
and who was equally poor?"
"But there seems an indelicacy in directing his attentions
towards her so soon after this event."
"A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those
elegant decorums which other people may observe. If SHE does
not object to it, why should WE?"
"HER not objecting does not justify HIM. It only shows her
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