Persuasion - Chapter Three - Jane Austen

You know, there's not really much here in Chapter Three. Basically Sir Walter de Vanity has decided to rent his place out to a naval officer. And if one didn't have a dislike for Sir Vanity already, one would certainly have it now. He's a bore and a stuffed up ole peacock who even judges Navy men in a negative light because the sea years age them and they come up in the ranks of society without deserving it. That is, he was 'born' so, therefore, he is deserving ...see what I mean?

Anywhoo,
There's a lot of blah, blah, blah about who can walk in his park and who might be some rank of distinction in connection to the rental person, but, alas after much insulting of anyone whom he mentions, he decides to give it a go.

Elizabeth is pleased with the decision being made because she is ready to go to Bath and party, and I love the way Miss Austen phrases that feeling, she explains, 'her inclination was growing so strong for a removal, that she was happy to have it fixed and expedited by a tenant at hand...." I love that!

Mrs. Clay is mentioned and shows a bit of good character in actually defending people's looks to Sir Vanity. And Anne shows herself again kind and a bit dreamy, I think, as she walks alone around the grounds thinking perhaps that the love of her life might very well be walking there soon.

I think it's interesting that Anne walks and Lizzie Bennett from Pride and Prejudice walked. I wonder if Miss Austen walked, and perhaps it was on her walks that she discovered things about herself and developed her characters and her stories. Perhaps she has her heroines walk as a way to show some kind of strength in them.