It’s refreshing to see people who don’t want to take something they feel they’re not truly entitled to, i.e. Daisy not wanting to marry William because she didn’t really love him and didn’t think it was right to benefit from his soldier’s pension and now Matthew, who betrayed Lavinia and feels guilty accepting her father’s inheritance under those circumstances.
How different from people nowadays who think they’re entitled to everything they want and not have to work to earn it.
We truly have lost pride and honor as a bedrock of our community.
My feelings completely! They follow such a rigid class system that many find abhorrent, and rightly so, yet at the same time, they are SO damn nobel and forthright. All of them, regardless of their social standing...well, except for likes of Thomas and O’Brien, and the Earl who drugged Benson.