Het Jane Austen Pocket Posh puzzelboekje is gewonnen door Henriette van Beurden. Zij gaf – samen met 72 anderen – het juiste antwoord op de vraag in welk boek van Jane Austen een alfabetspel voorkomt waarin het woord ‘blunder’ een belangrijke rol speelt. Dat is uiteraard in Emma:
“Miss Woodhouse,” said Frank Churchill, after examining a table behind him, which he could reach as he sat, “have your nephews taken away their alphabets—their box of letters? It used to stand here. Where is it? This is a sort of dull-looking evening, that ought to be treated rather as winter than summer. We had great amusement with those letters one morning. I want to puzzle you again.”
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Frank Churchill placed a word before Miss Fairfax. She gave a slight glance round the table, and applied herself to it. Frank was next to Emma, Jane opposite to them—and Mr. Knightley so placed as to see them all; and it was his object to see as much as he could, with as little apparent observation. The word was discovered, and with a faint smile pushed away. If meant to be immediately mixed with the others, and buried from sight, she should have looked on the table instead of looking just across, for it was not mixed; and Harriet, eager after every fresh word, and finding out none, directly took it up, and fell to work. She was sitting by Mr. Knightley, and turned to him for help. The word was blunder; and as Harriet exultingly proclaimed it, there was a blush on Jane’s cheek which gave it a meaning not otherwise ostensible.
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Nou, wat leuk dat ik gewonnen heb. Wie had dat ooit gedacht.
Hartelijk bedankt!