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quarantine mood: walking aimlessly around the house bc you’re tired of sitting down and can’t go outside to exercise and don’t know what else to do and suddenly realizing you have become a jane austen heroine “taking a turn about the room”
My darling love. As the world descends further into chaos, I want to let you know that we will stand at the edge of it as it burns and watch as they all go up in flames. You and I will rule over the ashes and make a world just for us. And as the nature takes claim over the skeletons of society, you will have an endless playground. You will be free. I promise you this.
scribbles to lily’s lover, feral kenyon
Wentworth and the Crofts
I've been thinking about this for a few days so here goes;
Wentworth and Anne met and fell in love eight years before the start of Persuasion. Admiral and Mrs. Croft have been married for - fifteen years? So, at the time he and Anne met, his sister had been married for seven years. We don't know much about his background, but it's obvious (to me) that he looks up to his sister and brother-in-law. So, you might think that when Wentworth thinks about marriage, he's looking to the Crofts as an example to follow.
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"What a great traveller you must have been, ma'am!" said Mrs Musgrove to Mrs Croft.
"Pretty well, ma'am in the fifteen years of my marriage; though many women have done more. I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have been once to the East Indies, and back again, and only once; besides being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar. But I never went beyond the Streights, and never was in the West Indies. We do not call Bermuda or Bahama, you know, the West Indies."
... "I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship. While we were together, you know, there was nothing to be feared. Thank God! I have always been blessed with excellent health, and no climate disagrees with me. A little disordered always the first twenty-four hours of going to sea, but never knew what sickness was afterwards. The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when the Admiral (Captain Croft then) was in the North Seas. I lived in perpetual fright at that time, and had all manner of imaginary complaints from not knowing what to do with myself, or when I should hear from him next; but as long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience."
Persuasion (pp. 45-46). Public Domain Books. Kindle Edition.
****** From Wentworth's point of view; he has to compare his strong-willed, loyal sister, happily married to a Navy man, willing to face the difficulties at his side; loving the travel and fearing nothing but separation.
Then there's Anne, who (in his view) 'noped' her way out of their engagement at the advice of Lady Russell - a woman who openly disliked him.
Anne, who (according to the Musgroves) turned down a perfectly good match because (once again) Lady Russell said 'No'. (WE know that LR wanted Anne to marry Charles, but no one else does.)
I can't blame him for that. I'm not sure I would be so quick to give a second chance to someone who dumped me because of advice from someone who I knew hated me.
He doesn't hate Anne, he doubts her loyalty and strength of mind.