Sir Walter Takes a Wife

How hard can it be to find a proper wife?

Faced with a lonely future and finding himself strapped for cash (as the young bucks say), Persuasion's Sir Walter Elliot manfully decides that the time has come to marry again.

His choice is a young woman of breeding and distinction. But alas, Sir Walter's vanity is his undoing. He refuses to use his spectacles and so sends a Valentine to the wrong Lady Catherine. What a disaster!

That is, until Sir Walter gets a look at the woman's grand estate.

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