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Apr 25, 2020, 14 tweets

What would the minor characters of #JaneAusten novels be doing under lockdown?

E.g.
Miss Lydia Bennet - delighted to be quarantined in Brighton for the summer with a whole campful of soldiers.

#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Lady Catherine De Bourgh:
Loudly instructs you on how to cure C-19 by snorting Ajax and how, if she had ever gone to medical school, she would have been a true proficient.
#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Mr Collins:
Still walks to Rosings every day for his daily mandated exercise. Talks to Lady Catherine through a locked window. She is completely unable to hear him, but he can still admire the fireplace.
#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Mr Darcy - joins the Zoom soireé.
Mrs Hurst: Mr Darcy, your mic is muted.
Mr Darcy: It is not. I simply have no remarks to make at this time.
#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Mrs Gardiner:
Extols the delights of Derbyshire, but implores you to visit later.
#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Mr Bingley:
Sets up an Instagram account called Netherwood. Can't understand why it gets reported as a possible pornography account.
#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Overheard in the Meryton Waitrose one way system...

"Other way Mr Collins"

#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Mr Hurst: *snore snort* What? What are we doing?
Miss Bingley: We're in quarentine Mr Hurst.
Mr Hurst: Damn silly way to spend an evening.
#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Miss Margaret Dashwood - self isolating in the treehouse, mournfully scanning her atlas.

#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Miss Marianne Dashwood:
The only character to actually catch C-19.
#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Mrs Bennet sets the girls to sewing face masks for the family.
Mr Bennet: *picks up poker* No lace Mrs Bennet! I beg of you NO LACE.

Mrs Philips - gets fined by the local PCSO for holding a clandestine cards evening.

#QuarrelAndQuarentine

Georgiana keeps making videos of herself playing the pianoforte planning to upload then to Tiktoc, but immediately deletes them.

#QuarrelAndQuarentine

@Afishoutofwtf please please add your suggestions from FB.

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