nine-and-twenty

A little sentiment I've been saving for this year...

It sometimes happens
that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine
than she was ten years before;
and,
generally speaking,
if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety,
it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost. ...
-Jane Austen

Good thing.

Because tell you what:
ten years before...

Also noted: "the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions." [also from Miss Austen]

[Let's just say
losing
my charm
is not what I'm worried about.]