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urge you to be more open and sincere in your dealings with your husband than our mother and father have ever been with each other.
Ugh. Fair.
“Our vicar, Mr. Elton.”
Oy. All we're missing is Collins.
Mrs. Elton preferred to express her piety through disapproval rather than charity.
She and Edmond should get along, then...
Everything in Edmund’s teaching told him to condemn William Price, and to condemn Fanny for standing with him. But what if that teaching did not truly reflect the Word of God?
*ding*ding*ding*
nothing about a ball is rational.
It was the residence of a happy family, and where that is the case, no home can lack beauty.
“Miss Bates, while I will of course be with my wife for the first two dances, will you favor me as a partner later this evening?”
Well look whose sanity and finer feeling have returned...
“I did ask, Mr. Darcy.”
I believe he's escaped at least one snare without even trying.
sterner stuff,
You ought to meet her grandfather.
I know not why his suspicion bent to me,
Really, Fred?
Your pride is not your prize money, and I hope that it never was. It lay in your service to your country, and having discharged that service with merit and honor. Our future is not one of privation and want—my dowry alone sees to that. And our security lies in each other, the bonds of our marriage, and our love for our daughter. The money Wickham stole—wrong as he was to do it—it had nothing to do with any of these things. Consider to what extremes this loss has driven us!”
Had he been blaming himself and his profession all this time?
*FACEPALM*
“I know that you would,” she said very simply, and it was one of the greater compliments he had ever been given.
OMG SO ADORABLE.
torn scrap of gold braid behind;
Women are not the only people who wear braid. So do military officers.
It is not only dresses that are trimmed with gold braid. So are military uniforms.
