Profile
|
|||
| User: | elinor_dashwood (11778479) “The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.”
Heaven and Hell 51 Emanuel Swedenborg |
||
| Name: | Miss Dashwood | ||
| Website: | History at Bryn Athyn College of the New Church | ||
| Birthdate: | 03-16 | ||
| Bio: | Mrs. Dashwood: Surely you're not going to deprive us of beef as well as sugar. Elinor: There is nothing under 10 pence a pound: we must economize. Mrs. Dashwood: Do you want us to starve? Elinor: No. Just not to eat beef. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is not every one," said Elinor to Marianne, "who has your passion for dead leaves." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (On leaving Barton for 1 month to visit London.) Marianne's joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone. Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive. Her mother's affliction was hardly less, and Elinor was the only one of the three who seemed to consider the separation as anything short of eternal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Poor Edward muttered something, but what it was, nobody knew, not even himself. But Marianne, who saw his agitation, and could easily trace it to whatever cause best pleased herself, was perfectly satisfied, and soon talked of something else. "We spent such a day, Edward, in Harley Street yesterday! So dull, so wretchedly dull! But I have much to say to you on that head, which cannot be said now." And with this admirable discretion did she defer the assurance of her finding their mutual relatives more disagreeable than ever, and of her being particularly disgusted with his mother, till they were more in private. "But why were you not there, Edward? Why did you not come?" "I was engaged elsewhere." "Engaged! But what was that, when such friends were to be met?" "Perhaps, Miss Marianne," cried Lucy, eager to take some revenge on her, "you think young men never stand upon engagements, if they have no mind to keep them, little as well as great." Elinor was very angry, but Marianne seemed entirely insensible of the sting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mrs. Jennings's prophecies, though rather jumbled together, were chiefly fulfilled; for she was able to visit Edward and his wife in their parsonage by Michaelmas; and she found in Elinor and her husband, as she really believed, one of the happiest couples in the world. They had, in fact, nothing to wish for, but the marriage of Colonel Brandon and Marianne, and rather better pasturage for their cows. | ||
| Pictures: | over 50 public | ||
| Interests: | 45: art, bluebells, caramel apples, christmas, church, cooking, crafts, dreams, england, family, flowers, friends, gardening, herbs, history, jane austen, kittens, lavender, music, packages, painting, peppermint, quill pens, rain, reading, religion, role playing, sense and sensibility, shakespeare, sir arthur conan doyle, snow, snowdrops, spring, sunlight, swedenborg, technology, the 18th century, the internet, the letter game, the middle ages, truth, winnie the pooh, winter, wisdom, writing | ||
| Friends: | |||
| Mutual Friends: | 13: aelfrith, anne_elliot_w, aucheme, clanrose25, emgenz, judah_edward, learnmygame, phrygiana, queenmolluskria, roadrunner26_2, rosintoes, starkey, sylviagrace | ||
| Member of: | 4: burningteeth, janeaustenfans, king_of_camelot, new_church | ||
| Account type: | Plus Account | ||
