Sublime

Woodston, it is implied, is where Henry is the incumbent local clergyman. The reason, confirmed later, he can still make Northanger half his home, and spend many weeks in Bath, is that he has a curate, a clergyman hired by the incumbent to perform some or all of the work in the parish. Many clergymen hired curates, in part because the abundance of

sanest guide through the turbulence and hatred of human politics is a humorous and self-deprecating pessimism.

People create a persona that will make them safe and they strive to attain the status and achievements they feel will bolster that self-image.

belligerent,

Gyre Carling

tenuous