You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking…

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You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them. ✨ Jane Austen (1853). Pride and Prejudice, p.333
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