Status Updates From Evelina

“I wish you would say no more to me, Sir, you have already destroyed all my happiness for this evening.”

“If I have offended you, you have but to leave me—and O how I wish you would!”

“But for you, Sir, I might, perhaps, have been happy.”

Oh the banter. Oh the wit. Oh the sass. Evelina, you’re my hero.

“I shall ever think my name honored by your making use of it.” -Lord Orville 🤌

“Assure yourself that I desire nothing more ardently, than to pour forth my thanks at your feet, and to offer those vows which are so justly the tribute of your charms and accomplishments. […] I burn to tell you, in person, how much I am, my sweet girl, your grateful admirer, Orville.” (286-287)

They just don’t yearn like this anymore, man

Clement and Captain should be exiled from society for their highwaymen scheme because that, my friends, is men once again taking a joke too far at the expense of a woman.

“We came home from the ridotto so late, or rather, so early, that it was not possible for me to write. Indeed we did not go, you will be frightened to hear it,— till past eleven o’clock: but nobody does. A terrible reverse of the order of nature! We sleep with the sun, and wake with the moon.” (43)

I feel your pain Evelina, 11pm is bedtime!

I’m enjoying this way more than I thought I would. I need a screen adaptation STAT.

Lord Orville > Mr Darcy? 🙊

“His conversation was sensible and spirited; his air and address were open and noble; his manners gentle, attentive, and infinitely engaging; his person is all elegance, and his countenance the most animated and expressive I have ever seen.“