Thursday, January 3, 2008

Wither I goest this night?

To a Jane Austen Book Club discussion of Mansfield Park.

"I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people.--I only entreat everybody to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier....." (Jane Austen, Mansfield Park)

Sweet, plain, immovable Fanny Price.

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