Cannot understand a sentence in Pride and Prejudice.
The paragraph goes like this:
when Mr. Wickham walked into the room, Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration. The officers of the ----shire were in general a very creditable, gentlemanlike set, and the best of them were of the present party; but Mr. Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk,

What kind of information does the sentence "Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration. " convey? Is it saying that Elizabeth doesn't care Wickham so that she never think of him with admiration?

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Cannot understand a sentence in Pride and Prejudice.
The paragraph goes like this:
when Mr. Wickham walked into the room, Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration. The officers of the ----shire were in general a very creditable, gentlemanlike set, and the best of them were of the present party; but Mr. Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk,

What kind of information does the sentence "Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration. " convey? Is it saying that Elizabeth doesn't care Wickham so that she never think of him with admiration?

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Elizabeth had met Mr Wickham before and found him extremely attractive. Now she meets him again and she finds that he is just as attractive as she first thought.
So her admiration was fully justified - not in the smallest degree unreasonable.

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PS. You are not the only one. We often have to read this older English a few times to get the meaning straight.

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She liked him previously and had thought him good since. She now finds she was right.

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