“Mrs. Portman is not much admired in Dorsetshire; the good-natured world, as usual, extolled her beauty so highly, that all the neighbourhood have had the pleasure of being disappointed.”
letter to Cassandra
November 17, 1798 [11]
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Ha! I love this! Classic snarky Jane!