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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
Perfection, Receiving, Would Be
Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides
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.