Start to read "Persuasion" by Jane Austen

Content:  For Anne Elliot," with all her
                 claims of beauty, and mind, to
                 throw herself away at
                 nineteen in an engagement
                 with a young man, who had
                 nothing about himself to 
                 recommend him ", was in  
                 Lady Russell's view most  
                 unfortunate.
                 Seven years after Anne
                 allowed herself to be
                 persuaded by her friend Lady
                 Russell to forgo the
                 attachment, she encounters
                 Captain Wentworth again.