God, who first set Jane Austen to work in what was thought to be a man's field: park, we pray, all our pride and prejudice, and so set our minds that we may in all places - whether South or North, hangar, abbey, dress shop, wood house or wherever we may work, use both sense and sensibility in the persuasion of all peoples to be as witty as Jane Austen, as clever as her heroines (except Fanny Price - she's a drip) and as honourable as Mr Darcy. Not the one in Bridget Jones. The real one.
Amen
Lady Susan is in full accord.
ReplyDeleteLady Catherine de Bourgh has never written a Collect.
ReplyDeleteBut if she did, it would be better than Cranmer.
Put Donald Trump in crinolines and he'd basically be Lady Catherine.
Crinolines in red in honour of his/her distant cousin, Sir Chris de Bourgh.
ReplyDeleteChurch Choir Notes - Ms Austen now front of tenners.
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