You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your decl…

Jane Austen
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. ✨ Pride and Prejudice. Book by Jane Austin (Chapter 34), January 28, 1813.
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