The description from Chapter 6 of the deceased Richard Musgrove, which was nothing more nor less at the time than a riff on 'Dick' being a low-class nickname... and is now a good example of Have a Gay Old Time.
"[Richard] had, in fact... been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done any thing to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead."
Admiral Croft confesses to Anne that he's made one or two changes to the decorating in Kellynch... namely, he's had the four walls of mirrors moved out of the bedroom because he was getting rather unsettled having to stare at himself all the time.
This small one from the first chapter about Anne's mother, the deceased Lady Elliot:
"Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose judgement and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful infatuation which made her Lady Elliot..."
At one point, Mary is so annoying that her husband chases a weasel into a bunch of thorny bushes to get away from her.
Admiral Croft can never remember which Musgrove sister is which and wishes that young ladies didn't have such a variety of Christian names—they ought to have names that are easy to remember, like the name Sophy!
