Sunday, June 26, 2011

Daily Dose

From Catherine and Other Writings, by Jane Austen

TOO CHARMING

"Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightfull than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor."

From Frederic & Elfrida, Chapter the Second

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