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<Text id=AusPers> <Author>Austen, Jane</Author> <Title>Persuasion</Title> <Edition>The Novels of Jane Austen. R. W. Chapman, ed. 2nd. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926</Edition> <Date>1815-1817</Date> <body> <div0 type=part n=1> <div1 type=chapter n=1> <loc><locdoc>AusPers3</locdoc><milestone n=3> Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt, as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century -- and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed -- this was the page at which the favourite volume . . .
