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‘But by G-, you lost a fine sight by not being here (in Portsmouth) in the morning to see the Thrush go out of harbour. I would not have been out of the way for a thousand pounds. … I was upon the platform two hours this afternoon, looking at her.’

Mr Price, Fanny’s father, in Mansfield Park.

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Romola Garai escapes the twenty first century to confuse the Highbury locals with an insufferably pert manner and talk of exercise regimes and wraggle taggle travellers-o. How will they cope?