“He is a very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man, I assure you. But as to our having ever met, except at the three last balls, I cannot say much; for he is so excessively laughed at about me at Ashe, that he is ashamed of coming to Steventon, and ran away when we called on Mrs Lefroy a few days ago.”
letter to Cassandra
January 9, 1796 [1]
Jane is again writing about Tom Lefroy.
The picture is of Ashe House, Jane’s dear friend Anne Lefroy’s home, which Jane mentions in the letter. Anne was Tom’s aunt.
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