Jane Austen by William Austen-Leigh

Author:William Austen-Leigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2009-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

Tuesday [December 27, 1808] . . . Lady Sondes’ match18 surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had there been a grown-up single daughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can, and provided she will now leave off having bad headaches and being pathetic, I can allow her, I can wish her, to be happy.

Do not imagine that your picture of your tête-à-tête with Sir B.19 makes any change in our expectations here; he could not be really reading, though he held the newspaper in his hand; he was making up his mind to the deed, and the manner of it. I think you will have a letter from him soon.

We have now pretty well ascertained James’ income to be eleven hundred pounds, curate paid, which makes us very happy—the ascertainment as well as the income.

Wednesday—I must write to Charles next week. You may guess in what extravagant terms of praise Earle Harwood speaks of him. He is looked up to by everybody in all America.

Yes, yes, we will have a pianoforte, as good a one as can be got for thirty guineas, and I will practise country dances, that we may have some amusement for our nephews and nieces, when we have the pleasure of their company.

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