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Mansfield Park (1814)

— Jane Austen

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  1. Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
  2. What dreadful Hot weather we have!-It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.
  3. Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.
  4. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
  5. You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
  6. I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it…
  7. In Paragon we met Mrs Foley & Mrs Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out-& at the bottom of Kinsdown Hill we met a Gentleman in a Bugg…
  8. We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your havin…

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