Status Updates From A Simple Story

the genuine shock that readers in 1791 must have felt when they first picked up volume 3 and it not only having a time jump but it also completely eviscerating all the hope and joy from the end of second volume in a single page…. I’m shooketh

“I could obey him as a husband; bus as a lover I will not… for if he will not submit to be my lover, I will not submit to be his wife— nor has he the affection I require in a husband”