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Part 33: Accession of Dignity

Sat, 08/13/2022 - 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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It was a pity the viscount could not remain longer, but with the banns safely read and announcement printed this week General Tilney was content.

It was a pity the viscount could not remain longer, but with the banns safely read and announcement printed this week General Tilney was content. The family would finally achieve what had been cruelly denied for generations.

Eleanor was secure, Frederick advancing, tranquility restored.

At last, his diligence was rewarded.

Title from Chapter 31 of Northanger Abbey: "The circumstance which chiefly availed was the marriage of his daughter with a man of fortune and consequence, which took place in the course of the summer—an accession of dignity that threw him into a fit of good humour...."