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Part 22: Properly to Relax

Sat, 05/28/2022 - 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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Richard Morland fairly dragged his unusually solemn elder brother from the house to join in whatever fun could be found.

Returning to Fullerton at the end of the Oxford term was a relief to Richard Morland. After several days of rest, though, he determined on attempting a different challenge.

"Come James, you can not stay cooped up today, at the very start of Whitsun-tide!" he admonished his unusually solemn elder brother, and fairly dragged him from the house to join in whatever fun could be found.

It took a whole day's persuasion and diversion to coax a smile from said brother, but the effort was duly rewarded by seeing how happy this change made the rest of their family party.

Title from Chapter 16 of Northanger Abbey: "When properly to relax is the trial of judgment...."