Walter ScottColonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a cup of tea.
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In this quote from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Colonel Fitzwilliam tells the reader about Colonel Talbot. He describes him as a disagreeable man who looks as if he thinks no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a cup of tea. This famous quote reveals that he is a nasty man who does not care about what other people think of him.
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