There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he…

Jane Austen
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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way. ✨ Jane Austen (2011). Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.163, Penguin
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