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Upon re-reading this, I think less of the heroine Anne Elliott than in former times. She is persuaded by her friend Lady Russell, who stands in place of a mother to Anne, to break off an engagement with a young navy officer, Frederick Wentworth because he doesn't have much money and doesn't come from a distinguished family. The idea is that Anne bitterly regrets losing Wentworth and eventually, after he has made his fortune, and gives up his resentment that she broke off the engagement, they get
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