Lady Bertram? We are ready for you. Go ahead, please:
"Mr Rushworth," said Lady Bertram, "if I were you, I would have a very pretty shrubbery. One likes to get out into a shrubbery in fine weather."
From Mansfield Park (1814)
Monday, December 22, 2008
A Jane Austen character speaks
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Lady Bertram's idea of "getting out" was to laze about. She was memorable for not doing anything for several hundred pages. I liked it best when she has to ask her husband if she can do without Fanny.
Now, imagine it in Margaret Dumont's voice and imagine what Groucho's response would be.
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