Jane Austen Quotes

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship...

Jane Austen

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• The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship...

  

  Jane Austen
  • Nature
  • Minutes
  • Painful