I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
Jane AustenYet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some
Jane AustenAt my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
Jane AustenSingle women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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