Jane Austen
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. I do not attempt to deny, said she, that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him. Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment. Elinor could not help laughing. Excuse me, said she, and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings. ✨ Jane Austen (1864). Sense and Sensibility, p.17

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