Jane Austen

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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen is to do pretty well; and professing myself, that the General's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conductive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny or reward filial disobedience.
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