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Wickham's excuse was initially that he had to go to town on business, and then he says he did not go to the ball because, in his words, "I had better not meet Mr. Darcy; that to be in the same room, the same party with him for so many hours together, might be more than I could bear, and that scenes might arise unpleasant to more than myself."

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Wickham claims he was unable to attend the ball in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" due to prior arrangements to join a friend in a trip to the Lake District.

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