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Quotes Written by Stephanie (2/4/2013 5:22 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Never thought about it., penned by Anushka

This is a usage found when Author Austen is using Free Indirect Speech. It has fallen out of favour with current authors to use the quotation marks, but was acceptable then, as I understand it.

Author Austen is considered one of the earliest masters of the style, which appears frequently in her novels. She sometimes puts the phrases attributable to the character's point of view (as opposed to the narrator's) in quotes, and sometimes not.

She may have eventually turned that passage you ask about into a true quotation, or dropped the quotation marks, had she lived to further revise the novel. We may never know -- I would guess that, had she always intended to leave them, it was to make it clear that this was Frederick Wentworth's attitude, not merely Anne's interpretation of it.

Wikipedia on Free Indirect Speech

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Change in Narration? Megan (1/30/2013 10:25 p.m.)
- Never thought about it. Anushka (1/31/2013 4:25 a.m.)
  - Quotes   Stephanie (2/4/2013 5:22 p.m.)
    
    I don't think this is free indirect speech   Roland (2/22/2013 4:36 a.m.)
    
    Thank you!   Megan G (2/4/2013 10:48 p.m.)
- New to Pemberley? Carol (1/30/2013 11:17 p.m.)

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