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Is it ordination that she calls a stain in ch45? Written by Tom P2 (10/17/2010 3:25 a.m.) in consequence of the missive, Mary as Mrs Vicar, penned by Bridget D

In her letter, Miss Crawford writes:

It was a foolish precipitation last Christmas, but the evil of a few days may be blotted out in part. Varnish and gilding hide many stains.

I haven't really looked at that carefully before, but the event around last Christmas that she's most likely to regard as precipitate is Edmund's ordination. Do you others also read it that way? That ordination is no longer just a sort of under-performance, but a reason to be positively ashamed -- an evil and a stain to be varnished and gilded over? If so, she's reached a new level of brattiness... or indecorum, if that's even a word.

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A woman of spirit. Rachel G (10/6/2010 9:34 p.m.)

A dig at Edmund Barb JA (10/7/2010 10:26 a.m.)
- Multiple meanings, & worse than ridicule. Rachel G (10/7/2010 1:11 p.m.)
  - Contempt Barb JA (10/8/2010 7:42 a.m.)
    - Mary's attitude to Religion. Rachel G (10/8/2010 3:15 p.m.)
      - Mary & Religion - modifying my view.   Rachel G (10/11/2010 5:44 p.m.)
        
        Perhaps something in-between   Ramya (10/13/2010 5:34 p.m.)
        
        religion and Mary   Bridget D (10/16/2010 7:04 a.m.)
        
        I agree with all you say, yet   Ramya (10/16/2010 10:56 a.m.)
        
        Mary as Mrs Vicar   Bridget D (10/17/2010 2:41 a.m.)
        
        Is it ordination that she calls a stain in ch45?   Tom P2 (10/17/2010 3:25 a.m.)
        
        Evil   Bridget D (10/17/2010 5:20 a.m.)
        
        Mary's religion   Bridget D (10/12/2010 3:14 a.m.)
      - Run Edmund Barb JA (10/10/2010 10:53 a.m.)
      - Mary about clergy and religion   Karen G (10/9/2010 10:52 p.m.)
        
        Dr Grant an example, but not the source.   Rachel G (10/10/2010 12:27 p.m.)
        
        Agree---Well Said nfm   BarbaraB (10/11/2010 12:20 a.m.)
        
        Great analysis! nfm   Ramya (10/10/2010 6:39 p.m.)
      - Brava, Madame! nfm KatharineW (10/9/2010 8:01 a.m.)
      - Thank you Rachel Carol (10/8/2010 10:29 p.m.)
  - It is her countenance that is so attractive Robbin (10/8/2010 12:13 a.m.)
  - What is more unjust is that Mary would have preferred Graciela (10/7/2010 1:46 p.m.)
    - Good point Barb JA (10/8/2010 9:55 a.m.)
      - Wasn't that Mary's point?   Lisa Dalrymple (10/8/2010 11:18 a.m.)
        
        I don't know.   Barb JA (10/8/2010 11:50 a.m.)
        
        Mary   Lisa Dalrymple (10/8/2010 12:13 p.m.)
        
        I felt that she was annoyed with Henry   Ramya (10/8/2010 12:46 p.m.)
        
        Aha - that makes sense! *nfm*   Lisa Dalrymple (10/8/2010 5:00 p.m.)
        
        Still feeling dense   Barb JA (10/10/2010 12:05 p.m.)
        
        I think could be interpreted either way   Karen G (10/10/2010 6:52 p.m.)
        
        I don;t think so   Ramya (10/10/2010 11:04 p.m.)
        
        It is very true   Karen G (10/11/2010 7:20 p.m.)
        
        This is how I took it   Ramya (10/10/2010 6:37 p.m.)
A thorough and well-reasoned view of a . . . KatharineW (10/7/2010 9:42 a.m.)
I'm excessively diverted Angela L (10/7/2010 4:38 a.m.)

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