Jane Austen
After sitting long enough to admire every article of furniture in the
room, from the sideboard to the fender, to give an account of their journey, and of all that
had happened in London, Mr. Collins invited them to take a stroll in the garden, which was
large and well laid out, and to the cultivation of which he attended himself. To work in this
garden was one of his most respectable pleasures; and Elizabeth admired the command of
countenance with which Charlotte talked of the healthfulness of the exercise, and owned
she encouraged it as much as possible. Here, leading the way through every walk and cross
walk, and scarcely allowing them an interval to utter the praises he asked for, every view
was pointed out with a minuteness which left beauty entirely behind. He could number the
fields in every direction, and could tell how many trees there were in the most distant
clump. But of all the views which his garden, or which the country or kingdom could boast,
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