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Patrick
Patrick's romantic life provides a lot of scope for speculation. The canon only provides Ginty, Claudie, and Nicola. I'll state up front that, of the three, Nicola is obviously the best match, in my opinion. Claudie is a non-starter, and unless Ginty gets a massive dose of maturity or Patrick goes off the deep end, we can rule Ginty out.
On the other hand, I see other possibilities. First Rowan, for all that there's an age difference. They certainly interact well together at the Nativity play in End of Term. And I can see each providing the other with something each lacks - a romanticism that would be a nice break from Rowan's constant level-headedness, and a practicality that might help Patrick go somewhere in life.
The other, surprisingly enough, is Ann. She is the only religious Marlow, and surely between low church Anglican and conservative Roman Catholic they could find some common ground. With the Anglican communion having its own turmoil, Ann might decide she doesn't want a woman vicar or blessings of same-sex unions. One suspects that Antonia Forest would have found today's religious landscape very interesting (and would have been very happy with the new Pope).
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If you're asserting that what 'girls' want is a charismatic bastard (and incidentally, how do you square that with thinking that Ann might prefer Rivers? Do you not consider Ann female?) then how does that relate to potential partners for Patrick?
I think some people here would see him as a charismatic Junior Byron type, and some as quite the reverse.
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Incidentally I've always been of the school that thinks the "mad, bad and dangerous to know" epithet is a bit unfair. Look who it's coming from, for one thing (Stanhope had her pegged right too). For another, his record as an active parliamentary member of the House of Lords was rather good and his part in the Greek war of independence was extremely level-headed. And extended to doing his best to prevent a Greek massacre of Turks.
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almost call it Rowanish, in the small glimpses we see when she's dealing with her dormitory babies.
Also, Ann has no money. Therefore, short of Mme Orly leaving her an inheritance (and I'd say Ginty was a more likely beneficiary), I doubt Rivers would have been interested.
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I can see Ann throwing herself into missionary work (as of course we know Forest envisaged in a way, though taking the form of working as a nurse in developing countries), but I think she is also quite independent and, like Rowan, used to making up her own mind and running things. I can't see her as a helpmate in the way St John Rivers had in mind. I've argued before that she's just as much officer material as Nicola and Rowan.
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