though i am well behind pace for my reading list this year, i did manage to check off three books: lady almina and the real downton abbey {the countess of carnarvon}, persuasion {jane austen}, and sarah's key {tatiana de rosnay}. here are some of the quotes from my readings:{lady almina and the real downton abbey, the countess of carnarvon}
"lord carnarvon travelled with george fearnside, his valet, and his french chauffeur, georges eilersgaard. the car was left-hand drive, had four gears and could travel at the corresponding speeds of 4.5, 7, 10, and 13 miles per hours. back in england later that month, he was summoned to appear in court in newbury for driving at more than 12 miles per hour (the legal limit at the time). it was to be the first of numerous speeding fines for lord carnarvon." --and i get impatient when the speed limit is 35 miles per hours. goodness, times have changed.
"upstairs and downstairs, the people of highclere were staring life-changing tragedy in the face. they just didn't know it yet."
{persuasion, jane austen}
"it sometimes happens, that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost."
"anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not."
"mary, i cannot wonder at your husband. nursing does not belong to a man, it is not his province. a sick child is always the mother's property, her own feelings generally make it so."
"but i hate to hear you talking so, like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. we none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days."
"this little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before. she understood him. he could not forgive her,--but he could not be unfeeling. though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. it was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed."
"...and could not seriously picture herself a more agreeable or estimable man. every thing united in him; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the word, and a warm heart. he had strong feelings of family-attachment and family-honour, without pride or weakness; he lived with the liberality of a man of fortune, without display; he judged for himself in every thing essential, without defying public opinion in any point of worldly decorum. he was study, observant, moderate, candid; never run away with spirits or by selfishness, which fancied itself strong feeling; and yet, with a sensibility to what was amiable and lovely, and a value for all the felicities of domestic life, which characters of fancied enthusiasm and violent agitation seldom really possess."
"there they returned again into the past, more exquisitely happy, perhaps, in their re-union, than when it had been first projected; more tender, more tried, more fixed in a knowledge of each other's character, truth, and attachment; more equal to act, more justified in acting."
{intermission...feel the new to start a new post. the third book has lengthier quotes. see part two.
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