03 - Love and Freindship - Jane Austen
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How does Laura describe the emotional warning at the start of Part Three?
part three letter the fourteenth laura in continuation arm yourself my amiable young friend with all the philosophy you are mistress of summon up all the fortitude you possess for alas in the perusal of the following pages your sensibility will be most severely tried Ah, what were the misfortunes I had before experienced, and which I have already related to you, to the one I am now going to inform you of? The death of my father, and my mother, and my husband, though almost more than my gentle nature could support, were trifles in comparison to the misfortune I am now proceeding to relate. The morning after our arrival at the cottage, Sophia complained of a violent pain in her delicate limbs, accompanied with a disagreeable headache.
She attributed it to a cold caught by her continued faintings in the open air as the dew was falling the evening before. This, I feared, was but too probably the case, since how could it otherwise be accounted for that I should have escaped the same indisposition, but by supposing that the bodily exertions I had undergone in my repeated fits of frenzy had so effectively circulated and warmed my blood as to make me proof against the chilling damps of night, whereas Sophia, lying totally inactive on the ground, must have been exposed to all their severity. I was most seriously alarmed by her illness, which, trifling as it may appear to you, a certain instinctive sensibility whispered me, would in the end be fatal to her.
Alas! my fears were but too fully justified. She grew gradually worse, and I daily became more alarmed for her. At length she was obliged to confine herself solely to the bed allotted us by our worthy landlady. Her disorder turned to a galloping consumption, and in a few days carried her off.
What tragic illnesses and losses befall Sophia and how are they described?
Amidst all my lamentations for her, and violent you may suppose they were, I yet received some consolation in the reflection of my having paid every attention to her that could be offered in her illness. I had wept over her every day, had bathed her sweet face with my tears, and had pressed her fair hands continually in mine. My beloved Laura, said she, a few hours before she died, take warning from my unhappy end, and avoid the imprudent conduct which had occasioned it. Beware of fainting fits, though at the time they may be refreshing and agreeable, yet believe me, they will in the end, if too often repeated, and at improper seasons, prove destructive to your constitution. my fate will teach you this i die a martyr to my grief for the loss of augustus one fatal swoon has cost me my life beware of swoons dear laura a frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious it is an exercise to the body and if not too violent is i dare say conducive to health and its consequences run mad as often as you choose but do not faint
These were the last words she ever addressed to me. It was her dying advice to her afflicted Laura, who has ever most faithfully adhered to it. After having attended my lamented friend to her early grave, I immediately, though late at night, left the detested village in which she died, and near which had expired my husband and Augustus. I had not walked many yards from it before I was overtaken by a stage coach, in which I instantly took a place, determined to proceed in it to Edinburgh, where I hoped to find some kind, some pitying friend, who would receive and comfort me in my afflictions. It was so dark when I entered the coach that I could not distinguish the number of my fellow travellers.
I could only perceive that they were many. Regardless, however, of anything concerning them, I gave myself up to my own sad reflections.
What dying advice does Sophia give Laura about fainting and frenzy?
A general silence prevailed, a silence which was by nothing interrupted, but by the loud and repeated snores of one of the party. What an illiterate villain must that man be, thought I to myself. What a total want of delicate refinement must he have, who can thus shock our senses by such a brutal noise. He must, I am certain, be capable of every bad action. There is no crime too black for such a character.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
How does Laura describe the emotional warning at the start of Part Three?
0:00–2:04
2
What tragic illnesses and losses befall Sophia and how are they described?
2:04–4:14
3
What dying advice does Sophia give Laura about fainting and frenzy?
4:14–5:43
4
How does Laura unexpectedly reunite with family on the stage coach?
5:43–8:42
5
What family backstories and social reactions are revealed during Laura’s narration?
8:42–12:46
6
How do Philander and Gustavus recount their scandalous theatrical past?
12:46–16:08
7
What resolutions and fates conclude Laura’s story and the cast’s outcomes?
16:08–17:44