Is sooo passive-aggressive.
It is delicious, though, to have him notice when Anne attracts the attention of someone of the opposite gender.
Until this moment, he had completely consumed Anne’s thoughts (and, he being no dummy, was certainly aware of it, and certainly enjoyed making Anne suffer).
What can she say? Captain Wentworth is not her favorite Jane Austen invention. As IF self doesn’t know WHY he returned to Anne’s orbit.
Stay tuned.
A servant answers a question posed to him by Captain Wentworth: “Mr. Elliott, a gentleman of large fortune . . . ”
Which probably gives Captain Wentworth pause.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
The harbor of Fowey:
WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!
And, just in case you didn’t get the point, there is a giant model of a sailboat on the first floor landing of the hotel and, at one end of the first floor corridor, a telescope pointed towards the sea.
Stay tuned.
After securing accommodations, and ordering a dinner at one of the inns, the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea. They were come too late in the year for any amusement or variety which Lyme, as a public place, might offer, the rooms were shut up, the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the residents left — and, as there is nothing to admire but the buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk up to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which in the season is animated with bathing machines and company, the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to east of the town, are what the stranger’s eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
Have attended two talks, both of them brilliant. The one this morning was delivered by Kate Aspengren, an American playwright (from Iowa!): Where’s the Fire? A Playwright Considers the Plays of Daphne du Maurier.
Loved knowing about this other aspect of du Maurier. The woman tried her hand at everything: novels, short stories, plays — even poetry!
Aspengren talked about three du Maurier plays:
Because self has read Tatiana de Rosnay’s Manderley Forever (one of her favorite reads of 2018), she knows of Daphne’s fraught marriage. Her husband was General “Boy” Browning who was mentioned (not flatteringly lol) in the book self just finished reading, Antony Beevor’s Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944. It was a very strained marriage, exacerbated by long absences. And du Maurier seems to have drawn on that for The Years Between.
As for September Tide, trust du Maurier to come up with this wickedly entertaining plot: A woman falls in love with her daughter’s husband. According to Aspengren, “the mother and son-in-law have an instant attraction to each other” despite an age gap of seven years.
Daphne du Maurier brings it.
Stay tuned.
He swans into town, proud and unyielding, and makes mincemeat of Anne Elliott’s heart. While he is surrounded by eligible young ladies, Anne is called upon to play the music for the dancing, “though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument . . .” Poor Anne!
Persuasion, pp. 69 – 70:
It was a merry, joyous party, and no one seemed in higher spirits than Captain Wentworth. She felt that he had every thing to elevate him, which general attention and deference, and especially the attention of all the young women could do.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 