Calling all Jane Austen lovers

From a softer world

Or lovers of Jane Austen, if you are still with us. If you are, you are pretty old. If you are, you don't have much company. Miss Austen had better things to do than make love.

Stop that now. You know how she meant it in 1814.

Please feel free to comment with your interpretations or vamp on the above.

I shall try to begin. Once it sinks in.
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