Ladies in Waiting

Chapter 5 The Elizas

The Elizas AUDREY BELLEZZA AND EMILY HARDING

“I cannot remember the time when I did not love Eliza; and my affection for her, as we grew up, was such, as perhaps, judging from my present forlorn and cheerless gravity, you might think me incapable of having ever felt. Hers, for me, was, I believe, fervent as the attachment of your sister to Mr. Willoughby, and it was, though from a different cause, no less unfortunate. At seventeen she was lost to me for ever….”

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility