Reading progress update: I've read 15 out of 250 pages.
On the travails of the impecunious Elliot family:
Sir Walter would quit Kellynch-hall;—and after a very few days more of doubt and indecision, the great question of whether he should go, was settled . . . There had been three alternatives, London, Bath, or another house in the country. All Anne's wishes had been for the latter . . . But the usual fate of Anne attended her, in having something very opposite from her inclination fixed on. She disliked Bath, and did not think it agreed with her—and Bath was to be her home.
So now I can add "inventor of the First World problem" to the list of Jane Austen's achievements.
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