"Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and the nothingness of her scene of life. . ."
Persuasion, volume 1, chapter 1
I love that phrase--"the prosperity and the nothingness."
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