he would
take no
denial.
You have
no idea
how he
pressed
me. I
begged him
to excuse
me, and
get some
other
partner –
but no,
not he;
after
aspiring
to my
hand,
there was
nobody
else in
the room
he could
bear to
think of;
and it was
not that
he wanted
merely to
dance, he
wanted to
be with
me. Oh!
Such
nonsense!
I told him
he had
taken a
very
unlikely
way to
prevail
upon me;
for, of
all things
in the
world, I
hated fine
