Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last ni…

Jane Austen
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Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together. ✨ Jane Austen (2013). Persuasion In Modern English, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides
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