Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home an…

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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. ✨ Jane Austen (2008). Emma: By Jane Austen, p.2, MobileReference
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