Frederick Wentworth taking time to comfort a grieving mother and indulging her to talk about her son... helping Anne with her nephew and making sure she gets a seat in his sister’s carriage because she’s clearly tired even though no one else noticed... going to see Captain Harville as soon as he hears from him because he (Harville) suffers from an old injury... breaking the news to Captain Benwick that his fiance had died bc Harville, the lady’s brother, couldn’t bring himself to do it... offering to accompany Henrietta home after Louisa’s accident and promising to look after her... spending the journey trying to comfort her and cheering her up... being the first to tell Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove about what happened to spare them the shock of seeing Henrietta so altered... taking care of Mrs. Smith and making sure she gets a property that will give her benefits because she is Anne’s friend...
I would pay good money to pluck Darcy and Wentworth out of their respective books and put them in the same room right after being dumped/rejected. Because Wentworth would be on a bender and Darcy would be like, "Maybe you should reflect on yourself" and they'd probably get close to killing each other but end up as best friends.
I'm reading Persuasion again, and I am just tickled by the complete takedown of Sir Walter Elliot that is his introduction.
Jane Austen said, "Meet Sir Walter Elliot. He's very pretty and he has a baronetcy and he sucks so bad. He's just so self-absorbed and all he cares about is how pretty he is and the fact that he has a baronetcy. The only reason that he should actually be proud of these things is because they probably scored him his very awesome (and tragically dead) wife, whose only major flaw was that she married him."
I don't think I'll ever understand people who claim that persuasion isn't as funny as her other novels.
"I am ready to fall in love with any woman who wants to love me and isn't Anne Elliot," said Captain Wentworth, lying to both the audience and himself all at once
my great-grandfather had to leave italy in the 20′s because he hit a fascist with a tuba, so if you think I am going to take this sitting down you are going to have to catch these hands and also this tuba
Fun story my Great Great Grandma left Germany in the 1920s because she had family in the US and could get citizenship pretty easily and once she was over in the US she then smuggled over 15 jewish families out by forging family documents so now my aunts are currently in the process of trying to tell the real ones from the fake ones because my great gran just died and there are legally over 100 surviving descendants but we know that math is a lil screwy.
Sometimes a family is you, your kids, your grandkids, your great grandkids, and the 15 Jewish families you helped smuggle out of Nazi Germany.
And your tuba
Rare White Chamois
Photographs Of Breathtaking Slovak Nature
Photographer: Filip Majerčík
A Herd Of Chamois On The Ridge Of The Low Tatras