Longbourn · Chapter 3 · the almost
The Only Handsome Man in the Room
Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?
Both, I think. I could more easily forgive your pride if you had not mortified mine. And I could more easily forgive mine if it did not keep looking at you to see whether you had noticed.
She had not meant to give him that last sentence. It left her anyway. The dance turned. His glove was warm through hers.the glove · unfinished
His glove was warm through hers. He opened his mouth.
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