"The real circumstances of this pathetic piece of family history were that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year; that he had been sent to sea because he was stupid and unmanageable on shore; that he had been very little cared for at any time by his family, though quite as much as he deserved; seldom heard of, and scarcely at all regretted, when the intelligence of his death abroad had worked its way to Uppercross, two years before.
"He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him 'poor Richard,' been nothing better than a thickheaded, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead."
- Jane Austen, Persuasion
Sparkling. Witty. Sarcastic. Hysterical. Austen.
How can one not love her?
1 comment:
Isn't she fabulous? One wonders what we would do without her! :-)
A fabulous quotation from my favorite Austen novel -- what a wonderful way to start the day!
Love,
Shannon
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