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Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint.
Mr. Bertram, the upright curate, who showed less sign of disturbance than most of the others.
Why is Gray working so hard to make sure we dislike Fanny and Edmund?
Juliet decided she had imagined that part of it.
It's called 'hysterics,' sweetie...
He must have realized the same thing, that the murderer is no intruder, Jonathan told himself.
Hence, being "out on the search" is the safest place Jonathan could be.
Frank Churchill.”
Well, FUCK.
Jonathan did not. Instead, he nodded slowly. “Quite so, Miss Tilney. Let us begin.”
THERE'S the Bennet in him.
Was this blithe assurance in a servant’s guilt merely snobbery? Or was it simply that the alternative could not be spoken aloud without committing a social breach?
Yes.
Once alone, he would rock back and forth, back and forth, until his thoughts made sense again.
Ah, kid is probably somewhere on the spectrum.
and so we shan’t be hungry.
Smart girl.
Frank Churchill
Gotta say Churchill is the perfect incompetent authority figure. Can't see anything past his nose, but not actively dislikable.
Sobs overcame her.
*sigh* Nice to know Marianne is still useless in a crisis.
The variables were too plentiful, too disturbing.
They're probably barely managing to think at all, let alone reasonably.
Would that I were as kind.”
Elinor would have strangled you in the cradle.
“These wild theories of the magistrate’s, about Gypsies and whatnot,”
No one ever accused Frank Churchill of genius, that's for sure.
“Give Wickham ten minutes in a room with anyone, and they would find reason to dislike him,”
Fair.
Because if Darcy had truly loved Susannah, it would be impossible for him to have gone on as usual, as he had these past eight months. It would be impossible for him to be so far away from Elizabeth now that even his love could not touch her.
Ah. Also:
HAVE YOU *MET* THE MAN, LIZZIE?!?! THE MORE UPSET HE IS, THE MORE HE WITHDRAWS!
Why should the kerchief have changed everything?
Because it forced Churchill to look beyond servants and Travellers.
“William loves him. He says it is as…as though they were married.”
... and he was dumb enough to put it in writing and send it to his almost comically devout sister and her minister husband with a stick of his own where the sun does not shine. Oh, William. 🤦🏼♀️
she was angry with him.
FUCKING FINALLY!
What he had not known was how good it would feel to do without them. When he spoke to Miss Tilney, he did not feel that he was strange. He did not have to pretend that he understood things he did not. Jonathan could be entirely himself. What a rare and exhilarating privilege.
Elizabeth caught herself, visibly horrified at her own slip—but
Lizzie *IS* off her game.
Their own son thinks they might be guilty.
Their own son can't even entertain the idea without sending himself into a meltdown. There's a difference.
“We cannot work together without trust. From now on, I shall undertake my inquiries on my own.”
*flounce*
“When were you going to tell me about this?”
YOU MEAN THE PERSONAL LETTER YOU JUST READ?!
what will your father and sisters say?
Jesus Dog, Fred, get OVER yourself already.
In her youth, Anne had been haunted by not knowing, but it had been many years since that pain last ached.
“True pride cannot be taken away, not by the contempt of the whole world. We cannot destroy the pride of others, only our own.”
And THIS is why Anne is my favorite of all Austen's heroines.
Families have their own pride, she thought. Their own secret languages and inner laws.
she fears that rage might have led him to act rashly toward Mr. Wickham?”
Or because he's been a pain in the ass to live with...
John Willoughby.
FUUUUUUUUUCK.
“You call your wife unkind and yourself merely weak,” Marianne muttered. “Perhaps you have suffered for your sins, but you have not learned from them.”
No other person of my acquaintance feels so deeply about poetry, or landscape, or any other refinements.
Uh-huh. Poetry and landscapes. Sure.
What relief—he was referring only to the murder.
*snicker*
“I would say that men reveal their anger much more quickly than women do. For them, it is not so strongly disapproved of. But anger that is hidden sometimes burns all the hotter. Like a pot with a lid on, you see?”
“My late uncle was a master of provocation.”
No joke.
the style was turning away from the purity and modesty of white, much to Edmund’s dismay.
*gag*
She can embroider and make lace and do every sort of thing, far better than I can for all my years with needle and thread, and I—”
God bless Miss Bates! 😆
But that didn’t mean she couldn’t enjoy watching it all play out. No circumstances could be so dire as to distract her from that!
*snicker* Emma's gonna Emma.
the Wentworths had been resident in this area for some months.
Brighton?
Ix-nay on the Ighton-bray...
do not know if I want to see the money again.”
At sea, as a captain, Frederick is at his very best. On shore, with new wealth…less so.”
“Is it very improper of us, Mr. Bertram? As a clergyman, can you excuse our conviviality in the face of such tragedy?”
Oh, Lizzie would not be able to resist tweaking a reverend's nose.
getting away from her,
I think you may as well wave it good bye, Em.
“You are the first person to describe an encounter with Miss Bates as ‘happy’ in quite some time, I imagine.”
WTF is Frederick's issue?!
Elizabeth Darcy.)
OMG, fuck you, too, Fanny.
It was not shocking that anger might lead to murder. Jonathan had to confront anew the truth that love might have that same power.
“I will say only this,” she finally answered. “I believe that the smallest hatred is a greater sin than the most misguided love.”
Mary’s husband had become the very dean in authority over Mr. Collins!
*snicker*
If you are not talking of him, it seems probable that you are not much talking with him either.
You can learn a lot from the sidelines.
