Okay, they win the Internets
Definitely the best Austen reference we’ve seen in ages.
In the Jane Austen novel that has become Mercury Interactive’s financial story in the past 12 months, it was HP playing the role of Mr. Knightley last month, riding to the rescue with an offer to buy Mercury for $4.5 billion and, thus, save the company from itself.
Mr. Knightley kicks the ground with his gaitered foot, smiling shyly and mumbling something about “just doing what was necessary, ma’am.”
There’s also a sweet little reference to Northanger Abbey in an article about traveling in Wales; on any other day, we would have been more readily charmed by it, but today it suffers in comparison.
AS Catherine Morland learned in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, reading too much into the word abbey is a recipe for false expectations of gothic splendour. Little is left of the sixth-century abbey that gives Penally Abbey Country House its name. But there’s a ruined medieval chapel in the garden and the windows and doors of the main building boast suitably gothic pointed arches.
Miss Morland would no doubt have been thoroughly delighted with the ruined chapel.
August 8th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I do agree that HP as Knightley is a much better reference.
Though I believe I, myself, would be charmed with such a ruined medieval chapel.