• It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

    Jane Austen: It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.
    Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides