"The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. (...) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb."

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She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

— Jane Austen