Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for …

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Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. ✨ Jane Austen (1833). Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion, p.56
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Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. ✨ Jane Austen (1833). Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion, p.56

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