The Letters of Jane Austen

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, it will hardly be possible for us to send for you before Saturday, though for my own part I care so little about the ball that it would be no sacrifice to me to give it up for the sake of seeing you two days earlier. We are extremely sorry for poor Eliza's illness

witty, and therefore if you never receive it, it does not much signify. I wrote principally to tell you that the Coopers

o is now staying with us, and I. I look forward with great impatience to it, as I rather expect to receive an offer fr

of my last letter, for I write only for fame

chaise to spend the day with her young cousins, but she does not much take to them or to anything about them, except Caroline's spinn

uld be favorable on Sunday, which it proved to be, they were to sail from Falmouth on that day. By this time, therefore, they are at Barbadoes, I suppose. The Rivers are still at Manydown, and are to be at Ashe

erever she can find them, even the kiss which C. Powlett wanted to give me, as I mean to confine myself in future to Mr. Tom Lefroy, for whom I don't care sixpence. Assu

e yesterday. I wonder what he means by being so civil. There is a report that Tom is going to be married to a Lichfield lass. John Lyford and his sister bring Edward home to-day, dine with us, a

etc., I am affec

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