#she's 17 but she could be a 25yo tumblrina

[laufire]

[Colonel Brandon's] pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment. [Marianne] was perfectly disposed to make every allowance for the colonel’s advanced state of life which humanity required.

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen.