Rec. #533: Quote from a Fictional Character #98

"Sometimes I think the lookers-on have the best of it, and to get the full savour out of life one should take firmly to the sofa early in youth and stay there, like Jane Austen."

--- Henrietta,

Henrietta's War, Joyce Dennys, 1939

(Rec. #344)

(Quote for These Times #1)