Morgan’s Reviews > North and South > Status Update

I've been teeheeing my way through this (currently nonexistent) romance and suddenly four people are dead and someone's on the run for treason and they're throwing around a manslaughter charge.

anyway

"He was as dizzy as if Margaret, instead of looking, and speaking, and moving like a tender graceful woman, had been a sturdy fish-wife, and given him a sound blow with her fists."

He's pathetic and I love him

" '....as I have no thought or expectation of ever asking her to be my wife, you’ll believe me for the future that I’m quite disinterested in speaking about her.' "

two hours later...

"He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact."

John Thornton, YOU 🫵 are a simp
and I love you for it