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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I binged each when they come out.

The author has carefully paved the way for Islington is to be a brother of sorts to Emma, who sees her as a replacement for the sister and other girl he lost (it's true his feelings are a little confused, but I think it's tending in the brotherly direction); and for her to become more and more romantically entangled with Pierce, who is a drunkard with baggage and not, in my view, a nice suitor for her (the classic bad boy that naive girls pine for). [b]The ever-so-remote and perfect Hawkes is in love with that silvery lady who was just introduced into society. [/b]

A good ending would be for Emma to come into independent wealth and decide she's not going to marry anyone just yet. I doubt it will happen.

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SPOILER? Well, speculation at least...

I actually think Lady Silver is Hawkes' sister (the family is described as "having a son as well" or something and mysteriously no one knows where he is...). And Emma is Hawkes' end game (though I am second PP, so perhaps this is just my bias!)[/quote]

PP you replied to. It did cross my mind that the elegant lady was Hawke’s sister but that can’t be right because they danced together at that masked ball and one of the rules of the era is to never dance with your brother.[/quote]

I've been reading recency era books for years. I have never come across that rule. [/quote]

Never heard of that either! Would be quite un-Bridgerton to boot (the foremost historical authority on regency England ;-) )[/quote]

I'm the poster who said it was not allowed. Please do your research. At a public gathering, it would be considered highly improper, since the social point of a ball or dance is courtship and marriage. If you're in your own home and your sister decides to play a dance tune on the pianoforte, of course you can grab a sibling to dance with.

In Austen's Emma, the title character actually says, when she suggest Knightley dance with her; "after all, we are not so much brother and sister as to make it improper". She refers to the fact that her sister is married to Knightley's brother. Knightley, who is realizing he's in love with her, heartily concurs, formally offers his hand, and they dance.

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