"'You might have talked to me more when you came to dinner.' [Elizabeth]
'A man who had felt less might.'" [Darcy]
Lizzy and Darcy reflecting on the rough progression of things, how when it finally came down to it, they were both embarrassed and awkward.
Pride & Prejudice, volume 3, chapter 18
This is very similar to something Knightley says in Emma. These men and their emotions--it is not that they don't have them, it's that they simply don't know how to express them.
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