“From the time of our being in London together, I thought you really very much in love.-But you certainly are not at all-there is no concealing it.-What strange creatures we are!-It seems as if your being secure of him (as you say yourself) had made you Indifferent.”
letter to her niece, Fanny Knight, about Mr. John Plumptre, whom Fanny was considering marrying
November 18, 1814 [109]
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