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Your quote points out something else, and always has, to me Written by Cathy Allen (10/3/2011 7:36 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Ch 1: A mature Miss Austen already struts out her sense of humor, penned by jeffrey

".....He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy...

The way I understand it, being a Baronet is about as low as one can go in the British Title department. Every title except "knight" is higher. So his pride is really much ado about nothing (a thank you to the Bard for that apt phrase) and I think Jane Austen meant us to see it that way all through this novel.

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Ch 1: A mature Miss Austen already struts out her sense of humor jeffrey (10/3/2011 10:06 a.m.)

Your quote points out something else, and always has, to me Cathy Allen (10/3/2011 7:36 p.m.)
- Yes, and Louise H (10/3/2011 10:16 p.m.)
Love that quote TimLee (10/3/2011 3:01 p.m.)
Laughing at Sir Walter Cheryl (10/3/2011 1:16 p.m.)
She was only Anne BarbaraB (10/3/2011 10:49 a.m.)
- Jeffrey, add to it the first line of that paragraph Jean B (10/3/2011 12:36 p.m.)
Sympathy for Anne Erica M. (10/3/2011 10:42 a.m.)
- Wow, I think that is a Brilliant observation! :) Kathy Lynn386 (10/3/2011 9:34 p.m.)
  - Why thank you! Erica M. (10/4/2011 1:55 p.m.)
- Ha! But I like your sort of humor. nfm Nancy Louise (10/3/2011 3:08 p.m.)
- Yes! Notice that the book seems to be about Sir W! nfm Stephanie (10/3/2011 11:23 a.m.)
- Sir Walter's unlikeability quotient Kathryn Ann (10/3/2011 10:50 a.m.)

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