Jane Austen (December 16 1775 – July 18 1817) was an English novelist who recorded the domestic manners of the landed gentry. She is known for her classically understated style and sly, ironic humour.
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
