Sense and Sensibility

Okay, life happened and it took a little longer then I had hoped to do this. Back to an evening with Jane.

We started by having a traditional English dinner.
We had roast beef, mashed parsnips, Yorkshire pudding, Cornish pasty (I think that is what they were called. It is some meat mix in a half-moon shaped pastry), and of course, gravy!
Suzanne has tons of pictures from her trip. It was wonderful looking through the albums she created. My favorite part was she had scenes from the movies, then underneath the picture of the real location. She did such a fantastic job remembering the scenes to take the picture while she was on the trip. Unfortunately, I don't have all her pictures. We'll just have to enjoy what she passed on to me.

There is only one picture from the movie "Sense and Sensibility"(1995 version). This is the house(Charlotte's) that Marianne was sick at. Remember, her physical condition matches the feelings in her heart after discovering her love, Mr. Willoughby, was engaged to a rich lady. Thank goodness most people do not die of a broken heart. This is also where see begins to notice Colonel Brandon.

"She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart . . ."

"How is she, Miss Dashwood?--Poor thing! she looks very bad.-- No wonder. Ay, it is but too true. He is to be married very soon--a good-for-nothing fellow! I have no patience with him. Mrs. Taylor told me of it half an hour ago, and she was told it by a particular friend of Miss Grey herself, else I am sure I should not have believed it; and I was almost ready to sink as it was. Well, said I, all I can say is, that if this be true, he has used a young lady of my acquaintance abominably ill, and I wish with all my soul his wife may plague his heart out. And so I shall always say, my dear, you may depend on it. I have no notion of men's going on in this way; and if ever I meet him again, I will give him such a dressing as he has not had this many a day. But there is one comfort, my dear Miss Marianne; he is not the only young man in the world worth having; and with your pretty face you will never want admirers. Well, poor thing! I won't disturb her any longer, for she had better have her cry out at once and have done with."