
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough....They were gradually acquainted, and when acquainted, rapidly and deeply in love. It would be difficult to say which has seen the highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest; she, in receiving his declarations, or he in having them accepted.
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
*sigh*
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