an inferior figure or letter

Miss Gryce snored at last: […] I was debarrassed of interruption; my half-effaced thought instantly revived.

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He only wanted to aggrandise and enrich himself; and if Miss Woodhouse of Hartfield, the heiress of thirty thousand pounds, were not quite so easily obtained as he had fancied, he would soon try for Miss Somebody else with twenty, or with ten.