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"Surely if there is a miracle, that is the miracle? That someone quite ordinary, by some not extraordinary action, can work providence?"

Finally got this back out of the library! :)

Apparently, I am not the only person to have the clever idea (or so I thought) of reading this in April. First someone cut in front of me on my initial library hold, and now I can't renew it because someone else reserved it, so the book and I bid each other a sorrowful farewell at the library today. I will have to reserve it again once its popularity plummets in May.😜

“Oh! But, my dear, we must change all that. I shouldn’t like to think of your father eating cheese; it’s such a strong-smelling coarse kind of thing. We must get him a cook who can toss him up an omelette, or something elegant. Cheese is only fit for the kitchen.”

Dislike for Mrs. Kirkpatrick is mounting rapidly.

Currently reading page after riveting page describing Levin mowing the grass in minute detail.