...acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days...that purpose. In a few moments Marianne did the same. "lam writing home, Marianne," said Elinor; "had not you better defer your letter for a day or two?"...

...apartment. It had formerly been Charlotte's, and over the mantelpiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent...that purpose. In a few moments Marianne did the same. " 7 am writing home, Marianne," said Elinor; " had not you better defer your letter for a day or two...

...apartment. It had formerly been Charlotte's, and over the mantelpiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent...that purpose. In a few moments Marianne did the same. ' I am writing home, Marianne,' said Elinor ; ' had not you better defer your letter for a day or two...

...apartment. It had formerly been Charlotte's, and over the mantelpiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent...that purpose. In a few moments Marianne did the same. "J am writing home, [216] Marianne," said Elinor; "had not you better defer your letter for a day or...

...cursory and curt: her mantelpiece, the narrator informs us, is adorned with "a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent...seven years at a great school in town to some effect" (p. 160). Austen also more extensively explains the differences between the Ferrars brothers than between...

...Sensibility, the "landscape in coloured silks" that graces Charlotte Palmer's old bedroom is Austen's wry "proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect" (pp. 16o).Jane West is less amused: Kitty Muggleton in The Infidel Father (1802) exchanges "her domestic...

...still keeps hanging over the mantelpiece in her daughter Charlotte's old room 'a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect'.32 The tone again suggests that a girl's education ought to consist of more than the ability...

...Charlotte Palmer in Sense and Sensibility hangs in her bedroom "a landscape in colored silks . . . proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect." Lady Bertram in Mansfield Parh, the laziest character in all of literature, "spent her days in sitting...

..."saying little and doing less"; Charlotte Palmer hangs above her mantlepiece "a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent...seven years at a great school in town to some effect" and now spends her time lounging, dawdling, laughing, and whiling away the time while her servants...

...apartment. It had formerly been Charlotte's, and over the mantelpiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent...seven years at a great school in town to some effect. Elinor determined to employ the interval in writing to her mother, and sat down for that purpose. In...