@spendius,
What a wonderful trick, among many others, Jane Austen produced when having created Lady Bertram's character as she does, and then have her actually run, "no indolent step" was the phrase, how pretty is that, to greet Fanny, when she returns from three months away from Mansfield Park, and falls upon her neck.
It couldn't be done in a movie.
I have an edition with drawings by a Hugh Thomson which really brings the book to life. It only cost me £2.
DELUGED.