heptasentility

30.12.2010 um 00:02 Uhr

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@@@@@ ?Oh! I know nothing of your furlongs, but I am sure it is a very long wood, and that we have been winding in and out ever since we came into it; and therefore, when I say that we have walked a mile in it, I must speak within compass ?We have been exactly a quarter of an hour here,? said Edmund, taking out his watch?Do you think we are walking four miles an hour?? 83 Jane Austen ?Oh! do not attack me with your watchA watch is always too fast or too slowI cannot be dictated to by a watch A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very walk they had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a comfortable- sized bench, on which they all sat down ?I am afraid you are very tired, Fanny,? said Edmund, observing her; ?why would not you speak sooner? This will be a bad day?s amusement for you if you are to be knocked upEvery sort of exercise fatigues her so soon, Miss Crawford, except riding ?How abominable in you, then, to let me engross her horse as I did all last week! I am ashamed of you and of myself, but it shall never happen again ?Your attentiveness and consideration makes me more sensible of my own neglectFanny?s interest seems in safer hands with you than with me ?That she should be tired now, however, gives me no surprise; for there is nothing in the course of one?s duties so fatiguing as what we have been doing this morning: seeing a great house, dawdling from one room to another, straining one?s eyes and one?s attention, hearing what one does not understand, admiring what one does not care forIt is generally allowed to be the greatest bore in the world, and Miss Price has found it so, though she did not know it ?I shall soon be rested,? said Fanny; ?to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment After sitting a little while Miss Crawford was up again?I must move,? said she; ?resting fatigues meI have looked across the ha-ha till I am wearyI must go and look through that iron gate at the same view, without being able to see it so well Edmund left the seat likewise?Now, Miss Crawford, if you will look up the walk, you will convince yourself that it cannot be half a mile long, or half half a mile ?It is an immense distance,? said she; ?I see that with a glance He still reasoned with her, but in vainShe would not calculate, she would not compareShe would only smile and assertThe greatest degree of rational consistency could not have been more engaging, and they talked with mutual satisfac

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