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While debating how long they have been engaging in this activity, a woman tells an aspiring clergyman, “Oh! Do not attack me with your watch.” A character’s love of this activity, which her rivals attribute to “conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum,” is analyzed in a nonfiction book in a chapter titled for that character’s petticoat. (15[1])A writer’s disregard of the Napoleonic wars is contrasted with her acceptance of the “cult of landscape” in a book on the “history of” this activity by Rebecca (15[1])(*) Solnit. Miss Hurst (10[3])cattily (10[2])says Elizabeth, (10[1])“has nothing, in short, to recommend her but” (10[1])her excellence at this activity, which Darcy says has “brightened” her “fine eyes” when she does it after Jane suddenly falls ill. (-5[1])For 10 points, Marianne is caught by a rainstorm while doing (10[1])what activity (10[1])favored by Jane Austen’s more (-5[1])free-spirited (0[1])“genteel country ladies,” the subject of Solnit’s Wanderlust? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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