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There may have been passion, but it was more passion for power than sexual, although sexual probably entered into it too.
Rome and Egypt were the two most powerful empires in the world.
So getting them, anybody who got them together and got an alliance between them would be unstoppable.
Caesarian was too young to rule.
And that was much more important than this frivolous luxury is the way it was really thought of as how attracted you were to the person.
Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter.
Now what have you to say?
Only this, if that is the case, you can have no reason to suppose he would make an offer to me.
You selfish girl!
This union has been planned since their infancy.
Do you think it can be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth?
Heaven and earth, are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?
Now tell me once and for all, are you engaged to him?
You know, Dad, it's funny.
Well, whenever we cook inside, Mom always does the cooking.
But whenever we cook outside, you always do it.
You know, they say a woman's place is in the home, and I suppose as long as she's in the home, she might as well be in the kitchen.
Well, that explains about Mom.
But how come you always do the outside cooking?
Okay, here I go.
Clearly a mistake.
I've got this, what, ailment?
My doctor, a shrink that I used to go to all the time, he says that in 50 or 60% of the cases, a pill really helps.
My compliment is, that night when you came over and told me that you would never...
All right, well, you were there.
You know what you said.
Well, my compliment to you is... the next morning, I started taking the pills.
I don't quite get how that's a compliment for me.
Why are you so into Pinot?
I mean, it's like a thing with you.
It's thin skin, temperamental, ripens early.
It's, you know, it's not a survivor like Cabernet, which can just grow anywhere and thrive even when it's neglected.
No, Pinot needs constant care and attention.
You know, and in fact, it can only grow in these really specific little tucked away corners of the world.
And only the most patient and nurturing of growers can do it, really.
Only somebody who really takes the time to understand Pinot's potential can then coax it into its fullest expression.
And then, I mean, oh, its flavors, they're just the most haunting and brilliant and thrilling and subtle and...
ancient on the planet.
My subconscious.
Remember, I can't control it.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.