#martha dunstable

[thenotcanadian]

It is personally offensive that no one else seems to want to appreciate the subtle budding romance between Doctor Thorne and Martha Dunstable in the same way as me, like what am I supposed to do, just suffer without fanfic? Write my own? I’m busy I just want to read about them they’re so cute!

Also go watch Doctor Thorne if you like period dramas, it’s really good and Tom Hollander is a fucking gift to acting. 

[scratchybeardsweetmouth]

Martha Dunstable x Doctor Thorne | for @khaleesa​

ᴍy ᴅᴇᴀʀ ᴍɪss ᴅᴜɴsᴛᴀʙʟᴇ, — ...We have known each other now somewhat intimately, though indeed not very long, and I have sometimes fancied that you were almost as well pleased to be with me as I have been to be with you. If I have been wrong in this, tell me so simply, and I will endeavour to let our friendship run on as though this letter had not been written. But if I have been right, and if it be possible that you can think that a union between us will make us both happier than we are single, I will plight you my word and troth with good faith, and will do what an old man may do to make the burden of the world lie light upon your shoulders... ...If you do not believe me to be true and honest already, nothing that I can write will make you believe it.    God bless you. I know you will not keep me long in suspense for an answer.                                                                Affectionately your friend,                                                                ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀs ᴛʜᴏʀɴᴇ. ᴅᴇᴀʀ ᴅᴏᴄᴛᴏʀ ᴛʜᴏʀɴᴇ, —I do and will trust you in everything; and it shall be as you would have it...                                                                 Yours affectionately and very truly,                                                                 ᴍᴀʀᴛʜᴀ ᴅᴜɴsᴛᴀʙʟᴇ.

“Then I suppose I am bound to have him,” said Miss Dunstable, dropping the letter on to the floor in mock despair. -- Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope

[j-august]

Miss Dunstable was by nature kind, generous, and open-hearted; but she was living now very much with people on whom kindness, generosity, and open-heartedness were thrown away. She was clever also, and could be sarcastic; and she found that those qualities told better in the world around her than generosity and an open heart.

Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

[annieaceofhearts]

Alison Brie in episode three of Doctor Thorne

[ladyfeliciamontague]

Doctor Thorne;flowers in your hair [2/2]

[j-august]

It seemed to Mr Moffat, that though Miss Dunstable was so sprightly, so full of fun, and so ready to chatter on all subjects, she well knew the value of her own money, and of her position as dependent on it: he perceived that she never flattered the countess, and seemed to be no whit absorbed by the titled grandeur of her host's family. He gave her credit, therefore, for an independent spirit: and an independent spirit in his estimation was one that placed its sole dependence on a respectable balance at its banker's.

Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne