Who said that annotated Jane Austen has to be stuffy?
£800 was a fabulous price for a chimney piece.No, this is not Thom Filicia throwing in his two pence - just a historical backgound note from editor Vivien Jones in my Penguin Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice, written in response to one of Mr. Collins' sycophantic raptures on Rosings Park. But it made me chuckle all the same.
Can't you just see Darcy, bored to death as Lady Catherine is droning on one evening, tilting his head to Colonel Fitzwilliam to whisper: "£800 was a fabulous price for a chimney piece. I don't know where the old trout found it, do you?"
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