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Book, page 481 / 484 be perverse and philosophical. Good night to you." Lady Jane snatched up her candle, and in haste retired. Caroline, sensible that all her ladyship's anger at this moment arose from warm affection, was the more sorry to have occasioned it, and to feel that she could not, by yielding, allay it instantly.--A sleepless night. Early in the morning, Keppel, half-dressed and not half awake, came, with her ladyship's love, and begged to speak a word to Miss Percy. "_Love!_" repeated Caroline, as she went to Lady Jane's apartment: "how kind she is!" "My dear, you have not slept, I see--nor I neither; but I am sure you have forgiven my hastiness;" said Lady Jane, raising herself on her pillow. Caroline kissed her affectionately. "And let these tears, my dearest Caroline," continued Lady Jane, "be converted into tears of joy: for my sake--for your whole family--for your own sake, my sweet girl, be advised, and don't throw away your happiness for life. Here's a note from Lord William--he waits my commands--that's all. Let me only desire to see him." "On my account? I cannot," said Caroline--the tears streaming down her face, though she spoke calmly. "Then it is your pride to refuse the man for whom every other young woman is sighing." "No, believe me that I do not act from pride: I feel none--I have no reason to feel any." "No reason to feel pride! Don't you know--yes, you know as well as I do, that this is the man of men--the man on whom every mother's--every daughter's eye is fixed--the first unmarried nobleman now in England--the prize of prizes. The most excellent man, you allow, and universally allowed to be the most agreeable." "But if he be not so to me?" said Caroline.
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