Sunday, November 27

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

"Delaford is a nice place I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice, old-fashioned place, full of comforts, quite shut in with great garden-walls that are covered with fruit-trees, and such a mulberry-tree in the corner. Then there is a dovecote, some delightful fish-ponds, and a very pretty canal, and everything, in short, that one could wish for; and moreover it's close to the church and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike road." Sense and Sensibility
I wonder what would be her description of "nice old-fashioned place" if she lived today. What about yours?