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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chapter thirteen. Their intended excursion to Whitwell turned out very
different from what Eleanor had expected. She was prepared to
be wet through, fatigued, and frightened, but the event was
still more unfortunate, for they did not go at all.
By ten o'clock, the whole party was assembled at the
(00:21):
park where they were to breakfast. The morning was rather favorable,
though it had rained all night, as the clouds were
then dispersing across the sky and the sun frequently appeared.
They were all in high spirits and good humor, eager
to be happy, and determined to submit to the greatest
inconveniences and hardships rather than be otherwise. While they were
(00:46):
at breakfast, the letters were brought in among the rest.
There was one for Colonel Brandon. He took it, looked
at the direction, changed color, and immediately left the room.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What is the matter with Brandon.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Said Sir John. Nobody could tell.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I hope he has no bad news.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Said Lady Middleton.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It must be something extraordinary that could make Colonel Brandon
leave my breakfast table.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So suddenly, in about five minutes he returned.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
No bad news, Colonel, I hope.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Said missus Jennings as soon as he entered the room.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
None at all, ma'am, I thank you?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Was it for Madviignon? I hope it is not to
say that your sister is worth No, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
It came from town and there's merely a letter of business.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But how came the hand discompose you so much? If
it was only a letter of business? Come come, This
won't do colonel, So let us say the truth of it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
My dear madam, said Lady Middleton.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Recollect what you are saying?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Perhaps is it to tell that your cousin Fanny is.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Married, said Missus Jennings, without attending to HER's reproof.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
No, indeed it is not.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well then I know who it is from, Carol, and
I hope she is well.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Whom do you mean, ma'am, said he, coloring a little.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh, you know who I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I am particularly sorry, ma'am, said he, addressing Lady Middleton.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
That I should receive this letter to day, but it
is on business which requires my immediate attendance in town.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
In town, cried missus Jennings.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What can you have to do in town this time?
For you?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
My own loss is great, he continued, in being obliged
to leave so agreeable a party. But I am the
more concerned, as I fear my presence is necessary to
gain your admittance at Whitwell.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
What a blow upon them all was this?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
But if you write a note to the housekeeper, mister Brandon,
said Mary Anne eagerly, will it not be sufficient?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He shook his head. We must go, said sir John.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It shall not be put off when we are so
near it. You cannot go to town till tomorrow, Brandon.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
That is all I wish it could be so easily settled.
But it is not in my power to delay my
journey for one day.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
If you would but let us know what your business.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Is, said missus Jennings.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
We might see whether it could be put off or not.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
You will not be six hours later, said Willoughby, if
you were to defer your journey till our return.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I cannot afford to lose one.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Hour eleanor Then heard Willoughby say in a low voice
to Mary Anne.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
There are some people who cannot bear a party of pleasure.
Brandon is one of them. He was afraid of catching
cold that essay, and invented this trick for getting out
of it. I would lay fifty guineas the letter was
of his own writing.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I have no doubt of it, replied Mary Anne.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
There is no persuading you to change your mind, Brandon.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I know of old, said Sir John, when once.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You are determined on anything. But however, I hope you
will think better of it. Consider here are the two
miscarreys come over from Newton. The three miss Dashwoods walked
up from the cottage, and mister Willoughby got up two
hours before his usual time on purpose to go to Whitwell.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Colonel Brandon again repeated his sorrow at being the cause
of disappointing the party, but at the same time declared
it to be unavoidable.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, then when will you come back again?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I hope we shall see you at Barton, added her ladyship,
as soon as you can conveniently leave town, And we
must put off the party to Whitwell until you return.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
You are very obliging, but it is so uncertain when
I may have it in my power to return, that
I dare not engage for it at all.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh, he must and shall come back, cried Sir John.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
If he is not here by the end of the week,
I shall go after him.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I so do, Sir John, cried Missus Jennings.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And then perhaps you may find out what his business is.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I do not want to pry into other men's concerns.
I suppose it is something he is ashamed of.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Colonel Brandon's horses were announced.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You do not go to town on horseback, do.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You, added Sir John.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
No, only to Hanaton. I shall then go.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Post well as you are resolved to go. I wish
you a good journey, but you had better change your mind.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I assure you it is not in my power.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
He then took leave of the whole party.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Is there any chance of my seeing you and your
sisters in town this winter, Miss Dashwood.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
I am afraid none at all.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Then I must bid you farewell for a longer time
than I should wish to do.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
To Mary Anne, he merely bowed and said nothing. Come, Colonel,
said Missus Jennings.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Before you go, do let us know what you are
going about.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He wished her a good morning, and, attended by Sir John,
left the room. The complaints and lamentations which politeness had
hitherto restrained, now burst forth universally, and they all agreed
again and again, how provoking it was to be so disappointed.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I can guess what his business is, however.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Said missus Jennings exultingly, Can you, ma'am? Said almost everybody.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yes, it is about miss Williams, I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
And who is Miss Williams?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Asked Mary Anne.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
What do not you know who Miss Williams is. I'm
sure you must have heard of her before. She is
a relation of the colonels, my dear, a very new
We will not say how ney the fear of shocking
young ladies.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Then, lowering her voice a little, she said to Eleanor
she is.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
His natural daughter. Indeed, oh yes, and is like him
as she can stare. I dare say the Colonel will
leave her all his fortune.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
When Sir John returned, he joined most heartily in the
general regret on so unfortunate an event, concluding, however, by
observing that as they were all got together, they must
do something by way of being happy. And after some consultation,
it was agreed that although happiness could only be enjoyed
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at whitwell, they might procure a tolerable composure of mind
by driving about the country. The carriages were then ordered.
Willoughby's was first and Marianne never looked happier than when
she got into it. He drove through the park very fast,
and they were soon out of sight, and nothing more
(08:00):
of them was seen till their return, which did not
happen till after the return of all the rest. They
both seemed delighted with their drive, but said only in
general terms that they had kept in the lanes while
the others went on the downs. It was settled that
there should be a dance in the evening, and that
(08:21):
everybody should be extremely merry all day long. Some more
of the Careys came to dinner, and they had the
pleasure of sitting down nearly twenty to table, which Sir
John observed with great contentment. Willoughby took his usual place
between the two elder Miss Dashwoods. Missus Jennings sat on
Eleanor's right hand, and they had not been long seated
(08:45):
before she leant behind her and Willoughby and said to
mary Anne, loud enough for them both to hear.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I have found you out in spite of all your chicks.
I know where you spent the morning.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Mary Anne colored and replied, very hastily where pray did not?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You know?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Said Willoughby that.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
We have been out in my cocal.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yes, yes, mister Impudence, I know that very well, and
I was determined to find out where you had been to.
I hope you like your house, Miss Marian. It is
a very large one, I know, and when I come
to see you, I hope you will have new furnished it.
But what did it very much when I was there
six years ago?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Mary Anne turned away in great confusion. Missus Jennings laughed heartily,
and Eleanor found that, in her resolution to know where
they had been, she had actually made her own woman
inquire of mister Willoughby's groom, and that she had, by
that method been informed that they had gone to Eleanor
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and spent a considerable time there, in walking about the
garden and going all over the house. Eleanor could hardly
believe this to be true, as it seemed very unlikely
that Willoughby should propose mary Anne consent to enter the
house while Missus Smith was in it, with whom mary
Anne had not the smallest acquaintance. As soon as they
(10:09):
left the dining room, Eleanor inquired of her about it,
and great was her surprise when she found that every
circumstance related by Missus Jennings was perfectly true. Mary Anne
was quite angry with her for doubting it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Why should you imagine, Eleanor, that we did not go there,
or that we did not see the house? Is not
it what you have often wished to do yourself?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Yes, Mary Anne, but I would not go while Missus
Smith was there, and with no other companion than mister Willoughby.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Mister Willoughby, however, is the only person who can have
a right to show that house, and as he went
in an open carriage, it was impossible to have any
other companion. I never spent a pleasanter morning in my life.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
I am afraid, replied Eleanor, that the pleasantness of an
employment does not always evince its propriety.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
On the contrary, nothing can be a strong proof of it, Eleanor.
For if there had been any real impropriety in what
I did, I should have been sensible of it at
the time, for we always know when we are acting wrong.
And with such a conviction I could have had no pleasure.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
But my dear Mary Anne, as has already exposed you
to some very impertinent remarks, do you not now begin
to doubt the discretion of your own conduct.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
If the impertinent remarks of missus Jennings are to be
the proof of impropriety and conduct, we are all offending
every moment of our lives. I value not her censure
any more than I should do her commendation. I am
not sensible of having done anything wrong in walking over
Missus Smith's grounds or in seeing her house. They will
one day be mister Willoughby's.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
And if there were one day to be your own,
Mary Anne, you would not be justified in what you
have done.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
She blushed at this hint, but it was even visibly
gratifying to her, and after a ten minutes interval of
earnest thought, she came to her sister again and said,
with great good humor.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Perhaps Eleanor it was rather ill judged in me to
go to Ellanham, But mister Willoughby wanted particularly to show
me the place, and it is a charming house. I
assure you. There is one remarkably pretty sitting room upstairs,
of a nice comfortable size for constant use, and with
modern furniture it would be delightful. It is a corner
(12:21):
room and has windows on two sides. On one side
you look across the bowling green behind the house, to
a beautiful hanging wood, and on the other you have
a view of the church and village, and beyond them
of those fine, bold hills that we have so often admired.
I did not see it to advantage, for nothing could
be more forlorn than the furniture. But if it were
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newly fitted up, a couple of hundred pounds, Willoughby says,
would make it one of the pleasantest summer rooms in England.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Could Eleanor have listened to her without interruption from the others,
she would have described every room in the house with
equal delight. End of Chapter thirty teen
Chapter thirteen. Their intended excursion to Whitwell turned out very
different from what Eleanor had expected. She was prepared to
be wet through, fatigued, and frightened, but the event was
still more unfortunate, for they did not go at all.
By ten o'clock, the whole party was assembled at the
(00:21):
park where they were to breakfast. The morning was rather favorable,
though it had rained all night, as the clouds were
then dispersing across the sky and the sun frequently appeared.
They were all in high spirits and good humor, eager
to be happy, and determined to submit to the greatest
inconveniences and hardships rather than be otherwise. While they were
(00:46):
at breakfast, the letters were brought in among the rest.
There was one for Colonel Brandon. He took it, looked
at the direction, changed color, and immediately left the room.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What is the matter with Brandon.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Said Sir John. Nobody could tell.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I hope he has no bad news.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Said Lady Middleton.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It must be something extraordinary that could make Colonel Brandon
leave my breakfast table.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So suddenly, in about five minutes he returned.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
No bad news, Colonel, I hope.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Said missus Jennings as soon as he entered the room.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
None at all, ma'am, I thank you?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Was it for Madviignon? I hope it is not to
say that your sister is worth No, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
It came from town and there's merely a letter of business.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But how came the hand discompose you so much? If
it was only a letter of business? Come come, This
won't do colonel, So let us say the truth of it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
My dear madam, said Lady Middleton.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Recollect what you are saying?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Perhaps is it to tell that your cousin Fanny is.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Married, said Missus Jennings, without attending to HER's reproof.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
No, indeed it is not.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well then I know who it is from, Carol, and
I hope she is well.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Whom do you mean, ma'am, said he, coloring a little.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh, you know who I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I am particularly sorry, ma'am, said he, addressing Lady Middleton.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
That I should receive this letter to day, but it
is on business which requires my immediate attendance in town.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
In town, cried missus Jennings.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What can you have to do in town this time?
For you?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
My own loss is great, he continued, in being obliged
to leave so agreeable a party. But I am the
more concerned, as I fear my presence is necessary to
gain your admittance at Whitwell.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
What a blow upon them all was this?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
But if you write a note to the housekeeper, mister Brandon,
said Mary Anne eagerly, will it not be sufficient?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He shook his head. We must go, said sir John.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It shall not be put off when we are so
near it. You cannot go to town till tomorrow, Brandon.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
That is all I wish it could be so easily settled.
But it is not in my power to delay my
journey for one day.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
If you would but let us know what your business.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Is, said missus Jennings.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
We might see whether it could be put off or not.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
You will not be six hours later, said Willoughby, if
you were to defer your journey till our return.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I cannot afford to lose one.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Hour eleanor Then heard Willoughby say in a low voice
to Mary Anne.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
There are some people who cannot bear a party of pleasure.
Brandon is one of them. He was afraid of catching
cold that essay, and invented this trick for getting out
of it. I would lay fifty guineas the letter was
of his own writing.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I have no doubt of it, replied Mary Anne.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
There is no persuading you to change your mind, Brandon.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I know of old, said Sir John, when once.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You are determined on anything. But however, I hope you
will think better of it. Consider here are the two
miscarreys come over from Newton. The three miss Dashwoods walked
up from the cottage, and mister Willoughby got up two
hours before his usual time on purpose to go to Whitwell.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Colonel Brandon again repeated his sorrow at being the cause
of disappointing the party, but at the same time declared
it to be unavoidable.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, then when will you come back again?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I hope we shall see you at Barton, added her ladyship,
as soon as you can conveniently leave town, And we
must put off the party to Whitwell until you return.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
You are very obliging, but it is so uncertain when
I may have it in my power to return, that
I dare not engage for it at all.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh, he must and shall come back, cried Sir John.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
If he is not here by the end of the week,
I shall go after him.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I so do, Sir John, cried Missus Jennings.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And then perhaps you may find out what his business is.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I do not want to pry into other men's concerns.
I suppose it is something he is ashamed of.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Colonel Brandon's horses were announced.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You do not go to town on horseback, do.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You, added Sir John.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
No, only to Hanaton. I shall then go.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Post well as you are resolved to go. I wish
you a good journey, but you had better change your mind.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I assure you it is not in my power.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
He then took leave of the whole party.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Is there any chance of my seeing you and your
sisters in town this winter, Miss Dashwood.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
I am afraid none at all.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Then I must bid you farewell for a longer time
than I should wish to do.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
To Mary Anne, he merely bowed and said nothing. Come, Colonel,
said Missus Jennings.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Before you go, do let us know what you are
going about.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He wished her a good morning, and, attended by Sir John,
left the room. The complaints and lamentations which politeness had
hitherto restrained, now burst forth universally, and they all agreed
again and again, how provoking it was to be so disappointed.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I can guess what his business is, however.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Said missus Jennings exultingly, Can you, ma'am? Said almost everybody.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yes, it is about miss Williams, I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
And who is Miss Williams?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Asked Mary Anne.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
What do not you know who Miss Williams is. I'm
sure you must have heard of her before. She is
a relation of the colonels, my dear, a very new
We will not say how ney the fear of shocking
young ladies.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Then, lowering her voice a little, she said to Eleanor
she is.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
His natural daughter. Indeed, oh yes, and is like him
as she can stare. I dare say the Colonel will
leave her all his fortune.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
When Sir John returned, he joined most heartily in the
general regret on so unfortunate an event, concluding, however, by
observing that as they were all got together, they must
do something by way of being happy. And after some consultation,
it was agreed that although happiness could only be enjoyed
(07:40):
at whitwell, they might procure a tolerable composure of mind
by driving about the country. The carriages were then ordered.
Willoughby's was first and Marianne never looked happier than when
she got into it. He drove through the park very fast,
and they were soon out of sight, and nothing more
(08:00):
of them was seen till their return, which did not
happen till after the return of all the rest. They
both seemed delighted with their drive, but said only in
general terms that they had kept in the lanes while
the others went on the downs. It was settled that
there should be a dance in the evening, and that
(08:21):
everybody should be extremely merry all day long. Some more
of the Careys came to dinner, and they had the
pleasure of sitting down nearly twenty to table, which Sir
John observed with great contentment. Willoughby took his usual place
between the two elder Miss Dashwoods. Missus Jennings sat on
Eleanor's right hand, and they had not been long seated
(08:45):
before she leant behind her and Willoughby and said to
mary Anne, loud enough for them both to hear.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I have found you out in spite of all your chicks.
I know where you spent the morning.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Mary Anne colored and replied, very hastily where pray did not?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You know?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Said Willoughby that.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
We have been out in my cocal.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yes, yes, mister Impudence, I know that very well, and
I was determined to find out where you had been to.
I hope you like your house, Miss Marian. It is
a very large one, I know, and when I come
to see you, I hope you will have new furnished it.
But what did it very much when I was there
six years ago?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Mary Anne turned away in great confusion. Missus Jennings laughed heartily,
and Eleanor found that, in her resolution to know where
they had been, she had actually made her own woman
inquire of mister Willoughby's groom, and that she had, by
that method been informed that they had gone to Eleanor
(09:46):
and spent a considerable time there, in walking about the
garden and going all over the house. Eleanor could hardly
believe this to be true, as it seemed very unlikely
that Willoughby should propose mary Anne consent to enter the
house while Missus Smith was in it, with whom mary
Anne had not the smallest acquaintance. As soon as they
(10:09):
left the dining room, Eleanor inquired of her about it,
and great was her surprise when she found that every
circumstance related by Missus Jennings was perfectly true. Mary Anne
was quite angry with her for doubting it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Why should you imagine, Eleanor, that we did not go there,
or that we did not see the house? Is not
it what you have often wished to do yourself?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Yes, Mary Anne, but I would not go while Missus
Smith was there, and with no other companion than mister Willoughby.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Mister Willoughby, however, is the only person who can have
a right to show that house, and as he went
in an open carriage, it was impossible to have any
other companion. I never spent a pleasanter morning in my life.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
I am afraid, replied Eleanor, that the pleasantness of an
employment does not always evince its propriety.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
On the contrary, nothing can be a strong proof of it, Eleanor.
For if there had been any real impropriety in what
I did, I should have been sensible of it at
the time, for we always know when we are acting wrong.
And with such a conviction I could have had no pleasure.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
But my dear Mary Anne, as has already exposed you
to some very impertinent remarks, do you not now begin
to doubt the discretion of your own conduct.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
If the impertinent remarks of missus Jennings are to be
the proof of impropriety and conduct, we are all offending
every moment of our lives. I value not her censure
any more than I should do her commendation. I am
not sensible of having done anything wrong in walking over
Missus Smith's grounds or in seeing her house. They will
one day be mister Willoughby's.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
And if there were one day to be your own,
Mary Anne, you would not be justified in what you
have done.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
She blushed at this hint, but it was even visibly
gratifying to her, and after a ten minutes interval of
earnest thought, she came to her sister again and said,
with great good humor.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Perhaps Eleanor it was rather ill judged in me to
go to Ellanham, But mister Willoughby wanted particularly to show
me the place, and it is a charming house. I
assure you. There is one remarkably pretty sitting room upstairs,
of a nice comfortable size for constant use, and with
modern furniture it would be delightful. It is a corner
(12:21):
room and has windows on two sides. On one side
you look across the bowling green behind the house, to
a beautiful hanging wood, and on the other you have
a view of the church and village, and beyond them
of those fine, bold hills that we have so often admired.
I did not see it to advantage, for nothing could
be more forlorn than the furniture. But if it were
(12:42):
newly fitted up, a couple of hundred pounds, Willoughby says,
would make it one of the pleasantest summer rooms in England.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Could Eleanor have listened to her without interruption from the others,
she would have described every room in the house with
equal delight. End of Chapter thirty teen
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