I do not want people to be agreeable.
Among the ladies at the dance, Miss Blatchford, she observed, was agreeable enough.
I do not want people to be very agreable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
As to the Miss Blackstones, she did dislike them, but
I was always determined not to like them, so there is the less merit in it.
Yet, for all the pleasure she took in the Manydown ball, it was nothing compared with the grand ball at Ashford that Cassandra had attended. She had danced and supped with a prince! Imagine, the joy of it, to sup with Prince William-Frederick and all the grandest people of Kent. Mr. John Calland would hardly appear such a genius among that exalted company.