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Part 32: The Fullness of Privileged Affection

Sat, 08/06/2022 - 6:00am
"Embroidery for Fire Screen" (early 1800s, Cleveland Museum of Art)

Trifles Light as Air

A collection of one-shots based on Northanger Abbey: drabbles, flash fiction, missing scenes, and more. Title from Shakespeare's Othello, as quoted by Jane Austen in Chapter One. Now available as an eBook via Draft2Digital.

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Back in April, with spring in full bloom, August had seemed such a distant month. They would surely be married by then.

August.

Back in April, with spring in full bloom, it had seemed such a distant month. They would surely be married by then, or at least their engagement announced.

August.

Certainly, summer and midsummer had passed. The fields near Fullerton grew full and rich; the orchard behind Woodston's parsonage ripened with apples. Christenings occurred, puppies matured, and time wound onward.

August.

There were many, many, many things to say, and so few words even the most voluminous letter could contain: hopes and plans and fears, little concealed after so many exchanges. It was their burgeoning season of solidarity.

August.

Title from Chapter 31 of Northanger Abbey: "They felt and they deplored—but they could not resent it; and they parted, endeavouring to hope that such a change in the general, as each believed almost impossible, might speedily take place, to unite them again in the fulness of privileged affection."