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Part 7: The Force of Love

Sat, 02/12/2022 - 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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James Morland did not, as a general rule, drive so fast as his friend (when he had the opportunity to drive at all).

"Had we not better rest the horses?"

"What? And get to Bath past dark, when you mean to get Belle as your partner for the first set tonight? What a joke!"

James Morland did not, as a general rule, drive so fast as his friend (when given the opportunity to drive at all). But as on so many other occasions, he deferred to Thorpe's greater experience and judgement. What lingering doubts he possessed were assuaged by considering how their speed brought them ever closer to his heart's desire.

After all, he very much wished to dance with her that evening.

Title from Chapter 15 of Northanger Abbey: "Here Catherine again discerned the force of love."