Sorry - I had a complete brain melt-down for all matters other than the essay outline I was trying to do and couldn't make it re-gel enough to respond to this or anyone else's comments.

Yes, I just checked that quote, and it's interesting: 'Poor Charlotte! - it was melancholy to leave her to such society!' - But she had chosen it with her eyes open; and though evidently regretting that her visitors were to go, she did not seem to ask for compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.'

Makes you shudder, doesn't it? But I think amoral might be just about it - and I don't think amoral is enough to merit authorial approval.