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Sense and Sensibility then [Northanger Abbey[/i] back to back to complete my Austen TBR provided many momwnts of reading joy and delight.
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As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with honeysuckles.
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the gentleman having named the last day on which his existence could be continued without the possession of the toothpick-case
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And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine’s portion; to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night’s rest in the course of the next three months.
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S & S particularly made me think of Wodehouse, as it was so much less caustic than her barbed wit in my two favourites,
Persuasion and
Mansfield Park