Re: Holiday at Hartfield: Twelfth Night

Ha ha re: wrapping paper. Not a truth universally acknowledged, but still easy to imagine.

I enjoy Emma more for the writing than for the character, though there are certainly things I admire about Miss Woodhouse. I adore the Knightley men, though, faults and all.

I kind of meandered through this story, so it's not as succinct as I'd like. I started with this passage:

it was very pleasant to have her father so well satisfied with his being all alone in his own house, too wise to stir out; and to hear him say to Mr. Knightley, whom no weather could keep entirely from them,—

“Ah! Mr. Knightley, why do not you stay at home like poor Mr. Elton?”

Then I threw in extra snow to keep the Londoners in the country past Mr. Elton's departure and wondered how far George would involve himself in the family holiday, its being his family too, no matter what Mr. Woodhouse thinks.