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Persuasion

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 always opened