“Never, madam,” cried he, affronted in his turn: “never, I assure you. I think seriously of Miss Smith!⁠—Miss Smith is a very good sort of girl; and I should be happy to see her respectably settled. I wish her extremely well: and, no doubt, there are men who might not object to⁠—Everybody has their level: but as for myself, I am not, I think, quite so much at a loss. I need not so totally despair of an equal alliance, as to be addressing myself to Miss Smith!⁠—No, madam, my visits to Hartfield have been for yourself only; and the encouragement I received⁠—”