QuoteQuest“Mrs. B. and two young women were of the same party, except when Mrs. B. thought herself obliged to leave them to run round the room after her drunken husband. His avoidance, and her pursuit, with the probable intoxication of both, was an amusing scene.”
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- Wikiquote: Jane Austen
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Letter (1801-05-12) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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Austen, Jane. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Jane Austen. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
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