Status Updates From Il Dottor Thorne

the way that the main young man of the novel has just publicly WHIPPED a man outside a gentleman’s club, his own father has laughed it off and the narrative has just moved on like it was nothing??????? IN VICTORIAN TIMES??

“Augusta again bore her disappointment well: not, indeed, without sorrow and heartache, and inward, hidden tears; but still well.
She neither raved, nor fainted, nor walked about by moonlight alone. She wrote no poetry, and never once thought of suicide.” tan real

miss dunstable seems to be kind of a queen if you ask me..

the way that this man is basically besties with his own brother’s MURDERER. and it’s never even mentioned like hello??????

such excellent gossip!