Status Updates From Persuasione

“Anne, at seven and twenty, thought very differently from what she had been made to think at nineteen…She was persuaded that under every disadvantage of disapprobation at home…she should yet have been a happier woman in maintaining the engagement, than she had been in the sacrifice of it.”

Anne realized that she would have been much happier all this time if she had ignored the anxieties of other people.

“She was persuaded to believe the engagement a wrong thing—indiscreet, improper, hardly capable of success, and not deserving it. But it was not merely a selfish caution…The belief of being prudent t, and self-denying principally for his advantage, was her chief consolation, under the misery of a parting.”

Mary Musgrove is going to send me into a Fit Of Rage