Returning to the sea

I am heading out today for a week in Cape Hatteras, NC — one of my favorite places in the world. JA Quote of the Day will return on Monday, June 4.

“The party from Uppercross passing down by the now deserted and melancholy looking rooms, and still descending, soon found themselves on the sea-shore; and lingering only, as all must linger and gaze on a first return to the sea, who ever deserve to look on it at all . . .”

on arriving in Lyme
Persuasion, volume 1, chapter 11