Sentence No. 94 · 29 June 2026
She had always felt that Charlotte’s opinion of matrimony was not exactly like her own; but she could not have supposed it possible that, when called into action, she would have sacrificed every better feeling to worldly advantage
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen — Pride and Prejudice (1813) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
The semicolon here divides a concession from a shock: the first clause admits a small difference ("not exactly like her own"), while the second reveals the true extent of it. When you see a semicolon, the second clause almost always escalates or contradicts — place the milder observation first.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 8 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A young woman reflects bitterly on a friend's surprising match. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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