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 Austen (2015). Annotated Pride and Prejudice with English Grammar Exercises: by Jane Austen (Author), Robert Powell (Editor), p.329, Powell Publications, LLC
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