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This excerpt is from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen:
> Her plan for the morning thus settled, she sat quietly down to her
> book after breakfast, resolving to remain in the same place and the
> same employment till the clock struck one; and from habitude very
> little incommoded by the remarks and ejaculations of Mrs. Allen, whose
> vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such, that as she
> never talked a great deal, so she could never be entirely silent; and,
> therefore, while she sat at her work, if she lost her needle or broke
> her thread, if she heard a carriage in the street, or saw a speck upon
> her gown, she must observe it aloud, whether there were anyone at
> leisure to answer her or not.
Can you reword this part? I am not sure what is being said here.
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Mrs. Allen was pretty much a scatterbrain. She wasn't able to do much thinking.
- Mrs.
- Allen was pretty much a scatterbrain.
- She wasn't able to do much thinking.
- She wasn't smart enough for that.
- As a result, she didn't talk much.
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Mrs. Allen was pretty much a scatterbrain. She wasn't able to do much thinking. She wasn't smart enough for that. As a result, she didn't talk much. But at the same time, she didn't refrain completely from talking. She would make observations of her surroundings out loud just to have something to say. It didn't even matter if no one was listening.
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0A more detailed, line-by-line paraphrase:
1. The protagonist had gone over, in her mind, her plan for her morning activities, and, with the plan settled (decided on), she sat down with her
2. after-breakfast book, determined to remain seated in the same place, and
3. doing the same thing (reading), until 1:00 PM. She had done this many times before and thus was not
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