It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the …

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted. ✨ Jane Austen (2013). Persuasion In Modern English, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides
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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted. ✨ Jane Austen (2013). Persuasion In Modern English, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides

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