I don't connect the colonel's sentiments with Eliza II's naivete

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I don't connect the colonel's sentiments with Eliza II's naivete Written by Tom P2 (10/3/2009 4:55 a.m.) in consequence of the missive, Educating Young Eliza., penned by Rachel G

I think of Colonel Brandon as an absentee guardian ("... It was a valued, a precious trust to me; and gladly would I have discharged it in the strictest sense, by watching over her education myself, had the nature of our situations allowed it; but..." --ch31), but I'd like to think that if he'd watched over her education himself, he would have aimed to make Eliza II less brittle than her mother.

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Looking for Eliza Barbara (10/1/2009 12:20 a.m.)

bring her to Delaford? LouAnn (10/1/2009 9:37 a.m.)
- She was long dead by then Barbara (10/1/2009 10:31 a.m.)
  - Oops I meant Eliza 2 LouAnn (10/1/2009 10:55 a.m.)
- Harriet Smith CarolTS (10/1/2009 1:29 p.m.)
Educating Young Eliza. Rachel G (10/1/2009 3:20 p.m.)
- raising Diane N. (10/1/2009 6:10 p.m.)
  - Raising Eliza Bridget D (10/4/2009 6:01 a.m.)
    - *Spoiler? above, nfm Barb JA (10/4/2009 11:12 a.m.)
- I don't connect the colonel's sentiments with Eliza II's naivete Tom P2 (10/3/2009 4:55 a.m.)
  - Not sure what you mean by "brittle" here. nfm Rachel G (10/3/2009 5:09 a.m.)
    - I meant her lack of fortitude when Brandon went into the army.nfm Tom P2 (10/3/2009 7:22 p.m.)
      - Thanks. nfm Rachel G (10/5/2009 5:32 a.m.)
How long was Willoughby w/ Eliza, I wonder? kathleen (elder) (10/4/2009 1:06 p.m.)
- Some guesses Rachel G (10/4/2009 2:59 p.m.)
  - Good points -- I wonder where they did go, then kathleen (elder) (10/4/2009 3:11 p.m.)

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