“I rather expect to receive an offer from my friend in the course of the evening. I shall refuse him, however, unless he promises to give away his white Coat.”
Jane writing to Cassandra re: a ball the following evening, joking about expecting an offer from Tom Lefroy
January 14, 1796 [2]
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