Part 38: Not Easily Pardoned

Letters between Fullerton and the seat of the new viscount were voluminous after the later's marriage, rivaling that already established between Wiltshire and Gloutchestershire. It was good to see Catherine so cheerfully employed; there had been some days when her discouragement was painful to witness.

Mr. Morland was tempted, on occasion, to address General Tilney with a note of his own. It defied his understanding how—absent any moral impediment—a father could behave in a manner so opposed to his child's happiness.

He acknowledged his bias, though, and resigned himself to prayerful petitions while savouring what time remained with his daughter.

Title from Chapter 29 of Northanger Abbey: "They were far from being an irritable race; far from any quickness in catching, or bitterness in resenting, affronts: but here, when the whole was unfolded, was an insult not to be overlooked, nor, for the first half hour, to be easily pardoned."