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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
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Steventon
Hampshire
Men
Kitty
Kitties
Leisure
Mary
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Quite
Young
Come

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