Sense and Sensibility, chapters 11-15

Mrs. Jennings starts talking two pages into Chapter 11 and only gains steam as the narrative progresses. Austen describes her as an "everlasting talker" who "had already repeated her own history to Elinor three or four times; and had Elinor's memory been equal to her means of improvement, she might have known very early in their acquaintance all the particulars of Mr. Jennings's last illness and what he said to his wife a few minutes before he died." She talks so much that she basically...