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(Miss Bingley), “She a beauty! — I should as soon call her mother a wit.” But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time.”
“Yes,” replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, “but that was only when I first knew her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
— Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (via ilovejaneausten)
Reblogged from The Jane Austen project
