Well, not loving. But caught in the suspense. Old books are good for that; these aren't the tropes we know.
If you do a fic, may I read it? (I'm not in Yuletide.) Are you going into the next generation, with Isabel's son the officially entailed heir? I'd fondly like to hope I mis-read that ending: in this canon, if there had been an entail, Henry would have got it without question, rather than the deserving and more capable Isabel. Is it possible Trollope was indulging some irony here and there? As, perhaps, in his repeated 'Wortle is an honorable man', er, that is, 'they should have parted'?
In many books of that era, there seems to be a coda opposed to the actual story.
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Date: 2013-09-23 10:04 pm (UTC)If you do a fic, may I read it? (I'm not in Yuletide.) Are you going into the next generation, with Isabel's son the officially entailed heir? I'd fondly like to hope I mis-read that ending: in this canon, if there had been an entail, Henry would have got it without question, rather than the deserving and more capable Isabel. Is it possible Trollope was indulging some irony here and there? As, perhaps, in his repeated 'Wortle is an honorable man', er, that is, 'they should have parted'?
In many books of that era, there seems to be a coda opposed to the actual story.