I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mot…

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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased. ✨ Jane Austen (1813). Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes, p.256
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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased. ✨ Jane Austen (1813). Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes, p.256

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