Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995)

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Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother’s account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse of everything strange on the part of her son.
Volume I Chapter 19 Page 99