Can you tell that Laura is still smitten by her husband?
Sometimes I wish we could still speak like Jane Austen characters, don't you?
Can you tell that Laura is still smitten by her husband?
BIG SMILE that's much of why I read her books over and over, and watch / listen to the movies of them ... the Brits have got speech DOWN and Jane Austen is one of the most eloquent of their advertisements for that extraordinary talent. When I was a young girl, about 10, I told my parents that I'd been teased at school for my vocabulary -- it was too, well, big. My mother, in a rare moment of encouragement and exhortation, turned to me and said strongly, "Don't EVER lose your vocabulary. It will help you and open doors for you all your life." She insisted I take Latin -- three years of it, and I am extremely grateful for it (now).
However, the "talk" around my home was a hodgepodge of my English verbal heritage, Midwestern common sense roots, and unfortunately a lot of unedifying speech. I have had much to unlearn in conversational English. This may sound weird, but reading / listening to Austen's characters has been a way to rebuild my mind / thought processes in how to communicate. It is as if Jane Austen's family has sort of become my own. You hear her father's voice so often coming through her shining characters, speaking wisdom from generations past. And the eloquence, well, it is beyond praise in my opinion.
I look forward to long chats with the authoress in heaven. =)