No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have …

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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine. ✨ Jane Austen (2008). Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson., p.2, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
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