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“It is clearly God's intention that men and women should live together, and therefore let the leap in the dark be made.”

A very Charlotte Lucas sentiment. 😂

“He had been in Parliament, had been in office, and had tried to write a book. But he was not a legislator, was not a statesman, and was not an author. He was simply a weak, vain, wretched man, who, through false conceit, had been induced to neglect almost every duty of life!”

Wow a move I did not see coming from a Trollope character! I hope this person can stick with it

It occurs to me how similar Sir Thomas and Ralph are. They vacillate.

She was innocent, pure, unknowing in the ways of vice, simple in her tastes, conscientious in her duties, and yet she was a rake at heart,—till at last sorrow and disappointment taught her that it is not enough that a man should lie loose upon the grass with graceful negligence and call for soda-water…Gregory…was sombre, and was a parson;—but, oh, what a thing it is that a man should be true at heart!

“To have his hair cut” — I mean that’s gotta be an Emma reference right?

Echoes of Persuasion on page 307! Fascinating. I don’t remember Trollope being so specific about unrequited love before.