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One of the many perplexing problems that now hemmed me in was brushed away by Fortune that afternoon. Between gloomy bursts of reflection on Fanny's, Mr. Crimble's, Mrs. Bowater's, and my own account, I had been reading Miss Austen; and at about four o'clock was sharing Chapter XXIII with poor Elinor: --
"The youthful infatuation of nineteen would naturally blind her to everything but her beauty and good nature, but the four succeeding years -- years which, if rationally spent, give such improvements to the understanding -- must have opened her eyes to her defects of Education, which the same period of time, spent on her side in inferior society and more frivolous pursuits. "