"I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations;...

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility
~ Jane Austen ~












the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility
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