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“His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when constructed against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five-and-thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment” (41). I laughed out loud.