The sentiment of being, it needs scarcely be said, is the criterion by which Jane Austen judges the quality of the selves she brings into her purview. Whoever in her novel wins her regard—-her compassionate or comic indulgence is another thing—-possesses in a high degree the sentiment of being, with all that this implies of self-sufficiency, self-definition, and sincerity.
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