[Look. Grey is trying, alright. Bedtime stories are a time-honored tradition! He has memories of his progenitor using them to get his great-grandson to settle down for the night anyway... Not that it necessarily worked... And it feels kind of weird to reflect on...
But all that aside, books are one of the subjects that Grey feels like he can ramble on about at length that wouldn't be particularly distressing.]
Well. I've recently started rereading Northanger Abbey. Are you familiar with that one?
[He waits for Manabu's denial of familiarity which the mun is assuming will be the case because Manabu really does not seem like a Jane Austen kind of guy before continuing.]
It's set in the distant past, about a young woman named Catherine Morland. Catherine is the sheltered daughter of a clergyman, and one of ten children...
[Grey does his best to summarize the plot of the book in enough detail to sufficiently distract and/or bore Manabu, who has probably never thought much about the matters of late 18th century/early 19th century British high society life.
Look.
Grey is really, really trying his best here.]
...Their problems are resolved when Eleanor becomes engaged to a viscount. This is sufficient enough to pacify General Tilney and earn his blessing, particularly when he finds out that the Morland family's financial situation isn't as dire as John Thorpe had told him.
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on 2024-03-12 08:32 pm (UTC)But all that aside, books are one of the subjects that Grey feels like he can ramble on about at length that wouldn't be particularly distressing.]
Well. I've recently started rereading Northanger Abbey. Are you familiar with that one?
[He waits for Manabu's denial of familiarity
which the mun is assuming will be the case because Manabu really does not seem like a Jane Austen kind of guybefore continuing.]It's set in the distant past, about a young woman named Catherine Morland. Catherine is the sheltered daughter of a clergyman, and one of ten children...
[Grey does his best to summarize the plot of the book in enough detail to sufficiently distract and/or bore Manabu, who has probably never thought much about the matters of late 18th century/early 19th century British high society life.
Look.
Grey is really, really trying his best here.]
...Their problems are resolved when Eleanor becomes engaged to a viscount. This is sufficient enough to pacify General Tilney and earn his blessing, particularly when he finds out that the Morland family's financial situation isn't as dire as John Thorpe had told him.