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"Screen Two" Persuasion

You may observe that one handsome face will be followed by thirty or five-and-thirty...

Sir Walter Elliot:

You may observe that one handsome face will be followed by thirty or five-and-thirty frights. Once, when I was standing in a shop in Bond Street, I counted eighty-seven women go by, one after the other, without there being a tolerable face among them. But then, it was a frosty morning, which scarcely one woman in a thousand can stand the test of. And as for the men, they are infinitely worse. The streets are full of scarecrows!

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I have frequently observed that one handsome face
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will be followed by 30 or five and 30 frights
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Once when I was standing in a shop in Bond Street
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I counted 87 women go by one after the other
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without there being a tolerable face among them
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But then it was a frosty morning
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which scarcely one woman in a thousand can stand the test of
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And as for the men they're infinitely worse
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The streets are full of scarecrows Mr Elliot is hardly a scarecrow
Duration
32 seconds
Views
282
Timestamp in Movie
01:03:40
Uploaded
Dec 03, 2022
Genres
Production
BBC Film,Millésime Productions,GBH,France 2

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Movie Summary

Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though ...

Actors

Corin Redgrave
Sir Walter Elliot