They reached town by three o'clock the third day, glad to be released, after such a journey, from the confinement of a carriage, and ready to enjoy all the luxury of a good fire. The house was handsome, and handsomely fitted up, and the young ladies were... Sense and Sensibility: a Novel - Page 134by Jane Austen - 1833 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| Marjorie B. Garber - Allusions - 2003 - 332 pages
...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... | |
| Emily Auerbach - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 364 pages
...passes the time elegantly "saying little and doing less"; Charlotte Palmer hangs above her mantlepiece "a landscape in coloured silks of her performance,...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... | |
| Jane Austen - England - 2007 - 1444 pages
...inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets. They reached town by three o'clock the third day, glad...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... | |
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