She tried to stop him, but vainly he would go on and say it all angry as she was. The thought of the moment made her resolve to restrain herself when she did speak. She replied, i am very much astonished, mister elton. This to me, you forget yourself. You take me for my friend. Any message to miss smith, i shall be happy to deliver. But no more of this to me, if you please. What could she possibly mean? And he repeated her words with such assurance of accent,. Such boastful pretence of amazement that she could not help replying with quickness. He had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits
Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of the Janeites, but to the aficionados of Emily Brontë they are the misguided worshippers of a circumscribed mind. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë dispensed with Austen’s niceties and the upper-middle class drawing rooms of Bath and the home counties. Her backdrop is the savage Yorkshire moors, her subject the all-consuming passions of the heart. To help you decide who should be crowned queen of English letters we have the lined up the best advocates to make the case for each writer. In this event, chaired by author and critic Erica Wagner, we invited guests including author Kate Mosse, Professor and author John Mullan, and actors Mariah Gale, Samuel West and Dominic West, to discuss each writer's influence.
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