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Part 30: A Message from Woodston

Sat, 07/23/2022 - 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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It was not the first time Eleanor had noticed her father dispose of an envelope after barely taking time to open it.

It was not the first time Eleanor noticed her father dispose of an envelope after barely taking time to open it. There had been one sent a month ago; another the previous fortnight. Today's was as unceremoniously tossed aside.

Only, if her mind did not play tricks, he looked at it a little longer than the others.

"Perhaps, sir, there is some news of the parish," she ventured to say from farther down the breakfast table, the empty seats between them never more welcome than now, a bulwark from his sudden angry glare.

"Nothing of your concern."

Title from Chapter 28 of Northanger Abbey: “’Tis a messenger from Woodston!”