A review by awilderm23
Mansfield Park by Jane Stabler, Jane Austen

3.0

‘The man who means to make you love him ... must have very uphill work, for there are all of you early attachments and habits in battle array; before he can get your heart for his own use he has to unfasten it from all the holds upon things animate and inanimate which so many years growth have confirmed and which are considerably tightened for the moment by the idea of separation.’

‘Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.’

‘It was an attachment to govern his whole life.’

‘If reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.’