Sense and Sensibility, Volume the Second, Chapters Seven and Eight

In which a scum-filled letter is received from Willoughby, Marianne reveals that she was maybe not quite as engaged as all that, Mrs. Jennings is well-intentioned, and pretty much everyone is sad.



Another short entry, with but one illustration and a couple of quick notes: at 28:33, when Mrs. Jennings is tactfully going on about how wonderful Colonel Brandon's property is and how happy Marianne will be there when she of course marries him now that she's no longer tangled up with Willoughby, she mentions its dovecote (a shelter for doves) and stewponds (fish ponds, hilariously).

30:12 - "How fond he was of it!"

I love how they worked in an illustration that's basically a flashback to how Mrs. Jennings's late husband used to like to get drunk, using his gout as an excuse. Cheers!


If you would like to read along, the text can be found at Project Gutenberg, and high-res copies of the Thompson illustrations can be found in the British Library's Flickr stream. No reading ahead, though!