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I wish I might take this for a compliment but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Easily
Afraid
Seen
Wish
Might
Take
Pitiful
Compliment

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