“ To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ”
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817). copy citation
| Author | Jane Austen |
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| Source | Northanger Abbey |
| Topic | beauty life |
| Date | 1817 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm |
Context
“she had now the pleasure of sometimes hearing her father and mother remark on her personal improvement. “Catherine grows quite a good-looking girl—she is almost pretty today,” were words which caught her ears now and then; and how welcome were the sounds! To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves;”
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