The Jane Austen book Club
“For me? she’d asked herself, back when she had no words and no way to even know she was asking. And then, when Sylvia, and then, when Daniel had first looked into her eyes—More for me?In Austen’s day, a traditional ball still opened with the minuet. The minuet was originally danced by one couple at a time alone on the floor.“Everyone knows,” Prudie said, “that a rich man is eventually going to want a new wife.” She was seated with Bernadette at a large round table at the annual fund-raiser for ...the Sacramento Public Library. Rich men were all around them, thick on the floor as salt on a pretzel.At the far end of the hall, in front of the huge arched window, a jazz band played the opening notes to “Love Walked In.” You could look up five stories, sighting along massive stone columns past four rows of balconies, each railed in wrought iron, to the dome of the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria. Great rings of glass hung suspended above.Prudie had never been inside the Library Galleria before, though one of the teachers at the high school had had her wedding here.MoreLess
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