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Chatsworth is great. I went there on my birthday - had a wonderful time. There is so much to see, but the highlight as far as I was concerned was the statue of the veiled vestal virgin. You wouldn't believe anyone could sculpt a credible veiled head in marble, but somebody did. I forget his name; he was Italian, but amazingly he wasn't Michelangelo.
There's also a literary connection, as it's generally agreed that Jane Austen based Pemberley on Chatsworth. Is that a good enough excuse for a Nextian convention there?
'Due to illness, the part of Thornfield Hall will tonight be played by a bus-shelter in Rickmansworth, instead of Tatton Hall as billed. We trust this will not spoil your enjooyment of the novel'.
'Go out there and knock em dead kid ... you're going out as a bus-shelter, but you're gonna come back a palace!'
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