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Helping me understand sensibility and Gothic elements in Austen novels!

You could really get lost in these footnotes!

"...but Emily continued to urge her father the truths, which himself had impressed upon her mind. 'Besides, my dear sir, poverty cannot deprive us of intellectual delights. It cannot deprive you of the comfort of affording me examples of fortitude and benevolence; nor me the delight of consoling a beloved parent. It cannot deaden our taste for the grand, and the beautiful...'"