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He would have hated the plot if he’d been able to find one, but it was only chapter after chapter of people talking.
“It’s just a bunch of people going to each others houses”
“Yes. It took Victor Hugo fourteen hundred pages to say, ‘Never let your daughter marry a radical French law student.’ Which everyone already knows.”
How eloquent this man was on nearly any subject except his own feelings.
Tom Severin character statement in one line
“Lady Cassandra Severin,” Tom said quietly, “that you’ll succeed is not even a question.” He gave her a wry glance. “The question is, are you going to spend the rest of our marriage trying to make me live up to your standards?”
“From Pride and Prejudice. Haven’t you read that one yet?” “I don’t need to,” Tom said. “If it’s Austen, I already know the plot: two people who fall in love after they have a terrible misunderstanding and have many long conversations about it. Then they marry. The end.”
