[67] Jane Austen must have had a partiality for alliteration.
[68] In “Mansfield Park” it would seem as if Jane Austen impartially
afforded a glimpse in Admiral Crawford and Lieutenant Price--though, to
be sure, the last was only a lieutenant of marines--of the dark side of
the members of the naval profession, whose bright side she illustrated,
_con amore_, in William Price and in the naval officers in “Persuasion.”
[69] Children and animals are as much in the background in Jane
Austen’s novels as they were in the society of her day.
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“PERSUASION.”[70]